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Sergei M. Eisenstein : Notes for a General History of Cinema / ed. by Naum Kleiman, Antonio Somaini.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Film Theory in Media HistoryPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (500 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048517114
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial Criteria -- Foreword -- Cinema as "Dynamic Mummification," History as Montage: Eisenstein's Media Archaeology -- Part One. Notes for a General History of Cinema -- 1. The Heir -- 2. Dynamic Mummification: Notes for a General History of Cinema -- 3. Revelation in Storm and Thunder -- 4. In Praise of the Cine-chronicle -- 5. The Place of Cinema in the General System of the History of the Art -- 6. Pioneers and Innovators -- Part Two. Essays -- 1. What Renders Daumier's Art so Cinematic for Eisenstein? -- 2. "The Heritage We Renounce": Eisenstein in Historio-graphy -- 3. The Notes for a General History of Cinema and the Dialectic of the Eisensteinian Image -- 4. Act Now!, or For an Untimely Eisenstein -- 5. Pathos and Praxis (Eisenstein versus Barthes) -- 6. Eisenstein's Absolutely Wonderful, Totally Impossible Project -- 7. Dynamic Typicality -- 8. Archaeology vs. Paleontology: A Note on Eisenstein's Notes for a General History of Cinema -- 9. Point - Pathos - Totality -- 10. Distant Echoes -- 11. "Synthesis" of the Arts or "Friendly Cooperation" between the Arts? The General History of Cinema According to Eisenstein -- 12. Eisenstein's Mummy Complex: Temporality, Trauma, and a Distinction in Eisenstein's Notes for a General History of Cinema -- 13. Sergei Eisenstein and the Soviet Models for the Study of Cinema, 1920s-1940s -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index of names -- Contributors
Summary: One 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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial Criteria -- Foreword -- Cinema as "Dynamic Mummification," History as Montage: Eisenstein's Media Archaeology -- Part One. Notes for a General History of Cinema -- 1. The Heir -- 2. Dynamic Mummification: Notes for a General History of Cinema -- 3. Revelation in Storm and Thunder -- 4. In Praise of the Cine-chronicle -- 5. The Place of Cinema in the General System of the History of the Art -- 6. Pioneers and Innovators -- Part Two. Essays -- 1. What Renders Daumier's Art so Cinematic for Eisenstein? -- 2. "The Heritage We Renounce": Eisenstein in Historio-graphy -- 3. The Notes for a General History of Cinema and the Dialectic of the Eisensteinian Image -- 4. Act Now!, or For an Untimely Eisenstein -- 5. Pathos and Praxis (Eisenstein versus Barthes) -- 6. Eisenstein's Absolutely Wonderful, Totally Impossible Project -- 7. Dynamic Typicality -- 8. Archaeology vs. Paleontology: A Note on Eisenstein's Notes for a General History of Cinema -- 9. Point - Pathos - Totality -- 10. Distant Echoes -- 11. "Synthesis" of the Arts or "Friendly Cooperation" between the Arts? The General History of Cinema According to Eisenstein -- 12. Eisenstein's Mummy Complex: Temporality, Trauma, and a Distinction in Eisenstein's Notes for a General History of Cinema -- 13. Sergei Eisenstein and the Soviet Models for the Study of Cinema, 1920s-1940s -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index of names -- Contributors

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One 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.

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