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One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei
Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship
Potemkin. 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.
One of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei
Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship
Potemkin. 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.
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