02957oam 2200433 450 991015186110332120200609174248.09789048517114(ebook)9048517117(ebook)9789089648440(hardback)9789089642837(paperback)9089642838(paperback)10.5117/9789089642837(CKB)3710000000957103(OAPEN)610151(EXLCZ)99371000000095710320191210d|||| uy enguuuuu---auuuuSergei 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 RyabchikovaAmsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (545 pages) illustrations; digital file(s)Film theory in media historyOne of the iconic figures of the twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevskii and Ivan the Terrible. 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.Film theory in media history.Notes for a general history of cinemaMotion picturesHistoryMotion picturesHistory.791.430233092Eisenstein Sergei1898-1948,151009Kleĭman N. I(Naum I.),Somaini AntonioRosen Margo ShohlCoxe Brinton TenchRyabchikova Natalie9910151861103321Sergei M. Eisenstein2004868UNINA