Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2016

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Notes for a General History of Cinema

Edited by: Naum Kleiman and Antonio Somaini

In the series Film Theory in Media History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048517114

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About this book

Eisenstein's virtual map of the world of all cinema-related media.

Author / Editor information

Kleiman Naum :

Naum Kleiman is director of the Film Museum in Moscow, director of the Eisenstein Center, and editor of the Russian editions of some of Eisenstein's most important theoretical works.Somaini Antonio :

Antonio Somaini is professor of film and visual culture studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

Reviews

"Unpublishable during his lifetime, [Eisenstein's] elliptical, often cryptic texts were only recently exhumed from the Eisenstein archive; they are published in this impressive volume along with extended reflections contributed by eminent international film scholars (editors included) on the director's later film theory. Highly recommended" - S. Liebman, *Choice Magazine* "The notes for [Eisenstein's] publication, [...] accompanied by smart essays by a wide range of cinema scholars, all lovingly edited by Naum Kleiman and Antonio Somaini, reveal Eisenstein at his most intellectually ambitious and capacious." - *Film Quarterly* "This volume, to its great credit, expands productively the study of Eisenstein’s film theory as well as prompting new approaches to film history through discontinuities, jumps, and the resonance of past and present developments in art." - Zdenko Mandu¿ic, Saint Louis University, *Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television*, 2017 Vol. 37

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
Editorial Criteria Naum Kleiman and Antonio Somaini Open Access Download PDF	9
Foreword Naum Kleiman Open Access Download PDF	13
Cinema as “Dynamic Mummification,” History as Montage: Eisenstein’s Media Archaeology Antonio Somaini Open Access Download PDF	19
Part One. Notes for a General History of Cinema
1. The Heir Sergei M. Eisenstein Open Access Download PDF	108
2. Dynamic Mummification: Notes for a General History of Cinema Sergei M. Eisenstein Open Access Download PDF	119
3. Revelation in Storm and Thunder Sergei M. Eisenstein Open Access Download PDF	207
4. In Praise of the Cine-chronicle Sergei M. Eisenstein Open Access Download PDF	225
5. The Place of Cinema in the General System of the History of the Art Sergei M. Eisenstein Open Access Download PDF	241
6. Pioneers and Innovators Sergei M. Eisenstein Open Access Download PDF	247
Part Two. Essays
1. What Renders Daumier’s Art so Cinematic for Eisenstein? Ada Ackerman Open Access Download PDF	255
2. “The Heritage We Renounce”: Eisenstein in Historio-graphy François Albera Open Access Download PDF	267
3. The Notes for a General History of Cinema and the Dialectic of the Eisensteinian Image Luka Arsenjuk Open Access Download PDF	289
4. Act Now!, or For an Untimely Eisenstein Nico Baumbach Open Access Download PDF	299
5. Pathos and Praxis (Eisenstein versus Barthes) Georges Didi-Huberman Open Access Download PDF	309
6. Eisenstein’s Absolutely Wonderful, Totally Impossible Project Jane Gaines Open Access Download PDF	323
7. Dynamic Typicality Abe Geil Open Access Download PDF	333
8. Archaeology vs. Paleontology: A Note on Eisenstein’s Notes for a General History of Cinema Vinzenz Hediger Open Access Download PDF	347
9. Point – Pathos – Totality Mikhail Iampolski Open Access Download PDF	357
10. Distant Echoes Arun Khopkar Open Access Download PDF	373
11. “Synthesis” of the Arts or “Friendly Cooperation” between the Arts? The General History of Cinema According to Eisenstein Pietro Montani Open Access Download PDF	385
12. Eisenstein’s Mummy Complex: Temporality, Trauma, and a Distinction in Eisenstein’s Notes for a General History of Cinema Philip Rosen Open Access Download PDF	393
13. Sergei Eisenstein and the Soviet Models for the Study of Cinema, 1920s-1940s Masha Salazkina and Natalie Ryabchikova Open Access Download PDF	405
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	415
Notes Open Access Download PDF	429
Index of names Open Access Download PDF	525
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	541

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 500
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 126
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Sergei Eisenstein; montage; untranslated notes; history of cinema

eBook

Published: April 25, 2016
ISBN: 9789048517114