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May 2, 2005 0415973651 978-0415973656 1
The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented Soviet realism to the world, and mastered the concept of film epic. Comprehensive, authoritative, and illustrated throughout, this classic work deserves to be on the shelf of every serious student of cinema.

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Sergei Eisenstein is arguably the most important single figure in the history of movies. He was certainly the most versatile. The director of the masterpieces Battleship Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein also wrote ground-breaking essays on film art and taught classes on motion picture production. In this thoughtful, clear, and beautifully organized book, David Bordwell describes Eisenstein's development as a filmmaker, essayist, and teacher, demonstrating how each of his occupations comments upon and elucidates the other. Playing the role of Eisenstein's biographer, historian, interpreter, and critic, Bordwell has composed one of the clearest and most complete views available of this difficult but exciting genius. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Bordwell (film studies, Univ. of Wisconsin) offers an academic piece on the work of famed Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, whose silent film Battleship Potemkim (1925) is considered by many to be the best film ever made. The book's title may be taken in its broadest sense, for it examines not only Eisenstein's movies but also his work as theorist and teacher, as well as his place in contemporary cinematic thought. While each of his films is discussed in-depth, equal space is given to the other aspects of his film career. Wisely, the author doesn't present Eisenstein as working in the vacuum of a Communist society but relates the changing Soviet artistic, philosophic, and academic theories that unquestioningly influenced his continually evolving film poetics. For academic and subject collections.
- Marianne Cawley, Kingwood Branch Lib., Tex.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Paperback: 344 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 2, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0415973651
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415973656
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a master's degree and a doctorate in film from the University of Iowa. His books include The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (University of California Press, 1981), Narration in the Fiction Film (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema (Princeton University Press, 1988), Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema (Harvard University Press, 1989), The Cinema of Eisenstein (Harvard University Press, 1993), On the History of Film Style (Harvard University Press, 1997), Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000), Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging (University of California Press, 2005), The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies (University of California Press, 2006), and The Poetics of Cinema (Routledge, 2008). He has won a University Distinguished Teaching Award and was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Copenhagen. His web site is www.davidbordwell.net.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Film Freak's Guide to the Great Eisenstein, June 6, 2000
David Bordwell, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, has produced as complete and insightful a guide to the cinemagraphic artistry of Sergei Eisenstein as any film lover could hope for. In addition to covering the director's life and "rehabilitation" to rightful prominence years after his death, Dr. Bordwell spends measured time dissecting and describing Eisenstein's theories of montage and "Social Realist" cinema in a most understandable and fluent way. For anyone who has marveled at the dramatic power of the "Odessa Steps" sequence in "The Battleship Potempkin" or the heroic sweep of "Alexander Nevsky," this book will take you behind the scenes and reveal how these masterworks were made, and why. Very readable, and filled with hundreds of illustrations from films both completed and unmade, "The Cinema of Eisenstein" will satisfy the serious movie-goer and the student of Soviet cultural history. A compendious bibliography and suggested reading list is included. Comrades, get this book!
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Eisenstein led a busy, dramatic life. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
thesis shot, monistic ensemble, unfolding foreground, vertical montage, audiovisual montage, tonal montage, heroic realism, intellectual cinema, editing unit, intellectual montage, classical film theory, cinematic specificity, montage cinema, motivic construction, socialist realism, coronation scene, expressive image, film form
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Ivan the Terrible, Bezhin Meadow, Socialist Realist, Odessa Steps, Cinema of Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky, Soviet Union, Civil War, Winter Palace, Provisional Government, Lady Macbeth, Peter the First, Sergei Eisenstein, The Wiseman, United States, Fiery Furnace, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Lef, The Film Sense, Ferghana Canal, Grand Master, The Battleship Potemkin, Yury Tynyanov, André Bazin
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