The Eisenstein Reader

by Sergei Eisenstein, Richard Taylor (Editor), Richard Taylor (Translator), William Powell (Translator)

Overview

For the first time in one volume, this book presents in concise, chronological form, Sergei Eisenstein's most significant work, including his famous theories of montage and articles on subjects as diverse as sound, film language and Russian history. The selection ranges from early writings on his silent masterpieces The Strike, October and The Battleship Potemkin, to later works, hatched in the hostile and paranoid environment of Stalin's Soviet Union. Drawn from the acclaimed four-volume Selected Works, this collection, which includes a new introduction and explanatory notes by Richard Taylor as well as many illustrations, further illuminates the startling originality, diversity and power of the greatest and most flamboyant of all Russian film-makers.
Legendary director Sergei Eisenstein has emerged as cinema's most influential theorist and author of some of the most important aesthetic writings of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781838718763
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Richard Taylor is Professor of Politics, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.
Richard Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Swansea University, Wales, UK. His previous publications include Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia&Nazi Germany (1998), The Battleship Potemkin (2001) and October in the BFI Film Classics series (2002). He is founding editor of the KINO Series.

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration and Translation
Eisenstein: A Soviet Artist, Richard Taylor
1. The Montage Of Attractions (1923)
2. The Montage Of Film Attractions (1924)
3. The Problem Of The Materialist Approach To Form (1925)
4. Constan?a (Whither The Battleship Potemkin) (1926)
5. Eisenstein On Eisenstein, The Director Of Potemkin (1926)
6. Béla Forgets The Scissors (1926)
7. Our October. Beyond The Played And The Non-Played (1928)
8. Statement on Sound (1928): Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Alexandrov
9. Beyond The Shot (1929)
10. The Dramaturgy Of Film Form (The Dialetical Approach To Film Form) (1929)
11. The Fourth Dimension In Cinema (1929)
12. 'Eh!' On The Purity Of Film Language (1934)
13. The Mistakes Of Bezhin Meadow (1937)
14. Alexander Nevsky and the Rout of the Germans (1938)
15. The Problems of the Soviet Historical Film (1940)
16. Stalin, Molotov And Zhdanov on Ivan The Terrible, Part Two (1947)
17. From Lectures on Music and Colour in Ivan The Terrible (1947)
Notes
Index