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The Eisenstein Universe (Hardcover)
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Over the decades since he was first hailed by critics and
filmmakers around the world, Sergei Eisenstein has assumed many
identities. Originally cast as a prophet of revolution and the
maestro of montage, and later seen as both a victim of and
apologist for Stalin's tyranny, the scale and impact of
Eisenstein's legacy has continued to grow. If early research on
Eisenstein focused on his directorial work - from the legendary
Battleship Potemkin and October to the still-controversial Ivan the
Terrible - with time scholars have discovered many other aspects of
his multifarious output. In recent years, multimedia exhibitions,
access to his vast archive of drawings, and publication of his
previously censored theoretical writings have cast Eisenstein in a
new light. Deeply engaged with some of the leading thinkers and
artists of his own time, Eisenstein remains a focus for many of
their successors, contested as well as revered. Over half a century
since his death in 1948, an ambitious treatise that he hoped would
be his major legacy, Method, has finally been published.
Eisenstein's lifelong search for an underlying unity that would
link archaic art with film's modernity, individuals with their
historic communities, and humans as a species with the universe,
may have more appeal than ever today. And among his many thwarted
film projects, those set in Mexico and what were once the Soviet
Central Asian republics reveal complex and still-intriguing realms
of speculation. In this ground-breaking collection, sixteen
international scholars explore Eisenstein's prescient engagement
with aesthetics, anthropology and psychology, his roots in diverse
philosophical traditions, and his gender politics. What emerges has
surprising relevance to contemporary media archaeology,
intermediality, cognitive science, eco-criticism and queer studies,
as well as confirming Eisenstein's prestige within present-day film
and audiovisual media.
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