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Sergei M. Eisenstein : notes for a general history of cinema
- Title
- Sergei M. Eisenstein : notes for a general history of cinema / edited by Naum Kleiman & Antonio Somaini ; translations from Russian by Margo Shohl Rosen, Brinton Tench Coxe, and Natalie Ryabchikova.
- Author
- Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 545 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "An iconic figure in twentieth-century cinema, Sergei M. Eisenstein directed landmark films such as Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible and authored a vast body of theoretical texts. This is the first English-language edition of his recently rediscovered notes for a 'general history of cinema.' In these, Eisenstein presents a fascinating genealogy of the media and art forms that preceded the birth of cinema and accompanied its first decades. Cinema is presented as a medium in constant flux and as heir to an expansive tradition, ranging from Dionysian mysteries to death masks and mummies, from wax museums to dioramas and panoramas, pursuing a breathtaking trajectory 'from Dionysus to television.' Eisenstein's notes are accompanied by a series of previously unpublished critical essays by internationally recognized Eisenstein scholars"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Film theory in media history
- Uniform Title
- Film theory in media history.
- Alternative Title
- Notes for a general history of cinema
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-523) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Russian.
- Contents
- Foreword / Naum Kleiman -- Cinema as "dynamic mummification," history as montage : Einstein's media archaeology / Antonio Somaini -- Notes for a general history of cinema / Sergei M. Eisenstein -- What renders Daumier's art so cinematic for Eisenstein? / Ada Ackerman -- "The heritage we renounce" : Eisenstein in historio-graphy / François Albera -- The Notes for a general history of cinema and the dialectic of the Eistensteinian image / Luka Arsenjuk -- Act now!, or For an untimely Eistenstein / Nico Baumbach -- Pathos and praxis (Eisenstein versus Barthes) / Georges Didi-Huberman -- Eisenstein's absolutely wonderful, totally impossible project / Jane Gaines -- Dynamic typicality / Abe Geil -- Archaeology vs. paleontology : a note on Eisenstein's Notes for a general history of cinema / Vinzenz Hediger -- Point--pathos--totality / Mikhail Iampolski -- Distant echoes / Arun Khopkar -- "Synthesis" of the arts or "friendly cooperation" between the arts? : the general history of cinema according to Eistenstein / Pietro Montani -- Eisenstein's mummy complex : temporality, trauma, and a distinction in Eisenstein's Notes for a general history of cinema / Philip Rosen -- Sergei Eisenstein and the Soviet models for the study of cinema, 1920s-1940s / Masha Salazkina and Natalie Ryabchikova.
- Call Number
- MWES (Eisenstein, S.) 16-4761
- ISBN
- 9789089642837
- 9089642838
- 9789089648440
- 9089648445
- LCCN
- 9789089648440
- OCLC
- 748349700
- Author
- Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948, author.
- Title
- Sergei M. Eisenstein : notes for a general history of cinema / edited by Naum Kleiman & Antonio Somaini ; translations from Russian by Margo Shohl Rosen, Brinton Tench Coxe, and Natalie Ryabchikova.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Film theory in media historyFilm theory in media history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-523) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the Russian.
- Added Author
- Container of (work): Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948. Notes for a general history of cinema.Kleĭman, N. I. (Naum I.), editor.Somaini, Antonio, editor.
- Other Form:
- 9789048517114(GyWOH)har1650115379789089642837(GyWOH)har165013068
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9789089648440
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Eisenstein, S.) 16-4761