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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948, author.

Contributor:

Kleiman, Naum, editor.

Somaini, Antonio, editor.

Series:

Film theory in media history.

Film Theory in Media History

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948--Criticism and interpretation.

Eisenstein, Sergei.

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages) : illustrations (black & white); digital file(s).

Other Title:

Notes for a general history of cinema

Place of Publication:

[Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Unpublishable during his lifetime, [Eisenstein's] elliptical, often cryptic texts were only recently exhumed from the Eisenstein archive; they are published in this impressive volume along with extended reflections contributed by eminent international film scholars (editors included) on the director's later film theory. Highly recommended" - S. Liebman, *Choice Magazine

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Editorial Criteria / Naum Kleiman, Antonio Somaini

Foreword / Naum Kleiman

Cinema as "Dynamic Mummification," History as Montage: Eisenstein's Media Archaeology / Antonio Somaini

Part One. Notes for a General History of Cinema

1. The Heir / Sergei M. Eisenstein

2. Dynamic Mummification: Notes for a General History of Cinema / Sergei M. Eisenstein

3. Revelation in Storm and Thunder / Sergei M. Eisenstein

4. In Praise of the Cine-chronicle / Sergei M. Eisenstein

5. The Place of Cinema in the General System of the History of the Art / Sergei M. Eisenstein

6. Pioneers and Innovators / Sergei M. Eisenstein

Part Two. Essays

1. What Renders Daumier's Art so Cinematic for Eisenstein? / Ada Ackerman

2. "The Heritage We Renounce": Eisenstein in Historio-graphy / François Albera

3. The Notes for a General History of Cinema and the Dialectic of the Eisensteinian Image / Luka Arsenjuk

4. Act Now!, or For an Untimely Eisenstein / Nico Baumbach

5. Pathos and Praxis (Eisenstein versus Barthes) / Georges Didi-Huberman

6. Eisenstein's Absolutely Wonderful, Totally Impossible Project / Jane Gaines

7. Dynamic Typicality / Abe Geil

8. Archaeology vs. Paleontology: A Note on Eisenstein's Notes for a General History of Cinema / Vinzenz Hediger

9. Point - Pathos - Totality / Mikhail Iampolski

10. Distant Echoes / Arun Khopkar

11. "Synthesis" of the Arts or "Friendly Cooperation" between the Arts? The General History of Cinema According to Eisenstein / Pietro Montani

12. Eisenstein's Mummy Complex: Temporality, Trauma, and a Distinction in Eisenstein's Notes for a General History of Cinema / Philip Rosen

13. Sergei Eisenstein and the Soviet Models for the Study of Cinema, 1920s-1940s / Masha Salazkina, Natalie Ryabchikova

Bibliography

Notes

Index of names

Contributors

Notes:

Translated from the Russian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789048517114

9048517117

9789048517121

9048517125

9781003703525

OCLC:

1350571700

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access