From Library Journal
This collection of 19 essays about the work of Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein aims to cast the iconic artist in a new light. Most Western works on Eisenstein concentrate on his silent films of the 1920s, which are routinely taught in introductory film classes as textbook examples of the montage style of editing. While this collection discusses the importance of this technique, which Eisenstein is usually credited with creating, it seeks to explore the director's later works and writings in as much depth. LaValley (film studies, Dartmouth) and Scherr (Russian, Dartmouth) have collected a wide range of essays, covering topics from the impact of the Orthodox Church on the director's work to the influence Eisenstein had on British directors. Several contributions by academics from the former Soviet Union, as well as many essays by professors of Russian literature, make this collection valuable to students of Russian language and literature as well as to the expected audience of film theorists. This collection will be of use to academic libraries with a film studies collection and to large public libraries. Andrea Slonosky, Long Island Univ., Brooklyn, NY
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"A much-needed . . . volume of essays reaffirming as well as reevaluating the work of Sergei Eisenstein for a new century." -- Andrew Horton, The Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film and Video Studies, University of Oklahoma
"This collection of nineteen essays about the work of Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein . . . casts . . . [him] in a new light" -- Library Journal
"This collection of nineteen essays about the work of Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein . . . casts . . . [him] in a new light" -- Library Journal
