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Mise en jeu and mise en geste / Sergei Eisenstein ; translated and with an afterword by Sergey Levchin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948, author.
- Series:
- Kino-Agora
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction.
- Physical Description:
- 91 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : Caboose, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Mise en jeu and Mise en geste was composed in January 1948, a few months before Sergei Eisenstein's untimely death. Here Eisenstein insists on subordinating all aspects of mise en scène to some unifying idea or principle inherent in the subject matter, transforming it from an incoherent jumble of staging decisions into a "legible text," wherein the subtext of a given scene or event - its hidden meaning - may be writ large. Unlike Eisenstein's previous writings on mise en scène, this essay treats separately distinct elements of that notoriously catch-all category: mise en jeu (transposition "of the interplay of motives" into a sequence of concrete actions); mise en geste (transposition of character into gesture); and mise en cadre (recreating the specific effects of a poetic passage through shot composition). Unfinished at the time of his death, the essay has been reconstructed by the Eisenstein Centre in Moscow and is appearing here in English for the first time."--Publisher description.
- Notes:
- Translated from Russian.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1972852221
- 9781972852224
- OCLC:
- 1293059352
- Publisher Number:
- 99991064705
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