Description
Product ID: | 9780415973656 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Cinema of Eisenstein |
Authors: | Author: David Bordwell |
Page Count: | 344 |
Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism |
Description: | An examination of Sergei Eisenstein's distictive contributions to filmmaking and film theory. It provides the only comprehensive guide in English to the range of Eisenstein's achievements in cinema. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2005-05-02 |