TY  - BOOK
ED  - Kleiman, Naum
ED  - Somaini, Antonio
AB  - One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevskii and Ivan the Terrible. His craft as director and film editor left a distinct mark on such key figures of the Western cinema as Nicolas Roeg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah and Akiro Kurosawa.This comprehensive volume of Eisenstein’s writings is the first-ever English-language edition of his newly discovered notes for a general history of the cinema, a project he undertook in 1946-47 before his death in 1948. In his writings, Eisenstein presents the main coordinates of a history of the cinema without mentioning specific directors or films: what  we find instead is a vast genealogy of all the media and of all the art forms that have preceded cinema’s birth and accompanied the first decades of its history, exploring the same expressive possibilities that cinema has explored and responding to the same, deeply rooted, —urges˜ cinema has responded to. Cinema appears here as the heir of a very long tradition that includes death masks, ritual processions, wax museums, diorama and panorama, and as a medium in constant transformation, that far from being locked in a stable form continues to redefine itself. The texts by Eisenstein are accompanied by a series of critical essays written by some of the world’s most qualified Eisenstein scholars.
DO  - 10.5117/9789089642837
ID  - OAPEN ID: 610151
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1048159315
KW  - montage
KW  - untranslated notes
KW  - sergei eisenstein
KW  - history of cinema
KW  - Photography
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5ff46b79-0562-4435-ab68-6909f59006c1/610151.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32683
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9789089642837
TI  - Sergei M. Eisenstein : Notes for a General History of Cinema
ER  - 
