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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457344903321

Titolo

Eisenstein rediscovered / / edited by Ian Christie and Richard Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-94440-3

1-134-94441-1

1-280-14161-1

0-203-99148-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

Soviet cinema

Altri autori (Persone)

ChristieIan <1945->

TaylorRichard <1946->

Disciplina

791.430233092

Soggetti

Soviet cinema

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from a conference held at Keble College, Oxford, July 1988.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and translation; Introduction: rediscovering Eisenstein; 1 Arguments and ancestors; 2 Jay Leyda and Bezhin Meadow; 3 Eisenstein's early films abroad; 4 Recent Eisenstein texts; 5 Eisenstein and Russian Symbolist culture: an unknown script of October; 6 Eisenstein's theatre work; 7 Eisenstein's Pushkin project; 8 Eisenstein and Shakespeare; 9 Graphic flourish: aspects of the art of mise-en-scè€ne; 10 Eisenstein as theoretician: preliminary considerations

11 The essential bone structure: mimesis in Eisenstein 12 Eisenstein and the theory of 'models';  or, how to distract the spectator's attention; 13 Eisenstein and the theory of the photogram; 14 The frame and montage in Eisenstein's 'later' aesthetics; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Eisenstein Rediscovered Ian Christie and Richard Taylor present the first true East-West symposium on Eisenstein with an unparalleled diversity of views and methodologies. Two newly discovered texts by Eisenstein are here translated fro the first time, and all the contributors make extensive use of material only recently available - variant scripts, drawings, diaries and other writings - to probe behind the familiar



facade. The `new' Eisenstein that emerges is in all respects a more engaging and contemporary figure than is traditionally perceived, his wit, eroticism and eclectic