Eisenstein Rediscovered, First Edition

Soviet Cinema

Routledge

Eisenstein's reputation has long been secure as creator of the Soviet cinema's earliest and most enduring classics, and as a pioneer theorist and teacher. Yet a new wave of Eisenstein scholarship, enriched by new publications emerging from the former Soviet Union, has revealed far more eclectic and erotic figure than tradition would suggest. IEisenstein Rediscovered is the first book to make full use of post-glasnost freedom from taboos and pieties to consider Eisenstein `in the round', giving due weight to his work outside film directing. Scholars from ten countries offer important new perspectives for reinterpreting Russian culture of the Soviet period, presenting an unparalleled diversity of views and methodologies with two newly discovered texts by Eisenstein here translated for the first time. The `new' Eisenstein that emerges is in all respects a more engaging and contemporary figure than is traditionally perceived, his wit, versatility and eclectic passions defining a distinctively modern sensibility whose discovery is long overdue.

Published in English , First Published in the EU May 1993

Size: 288 pages, Dimensions: 234x156mm 6.25x9.25 inches


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Table of Contents:

1. Illustrations, Notes on Contributors, General Editor's Preface, Acknowledgements, Note on Tranliteration and Translation, Introduction Part I: Eisenstein Studies Today: Text and Context
2. Arguments and Ancestors, Naum Kleiman
3. Jay Leyda and Bezhin Meadow, David Stirk and Elena Pinto Simon,
4. Eisenstein's Silent Films: The Reception Abroad, Kristin Thompson
5. Recent Eisenstein Texts: Introduction: Eisenstein at La Sarraz, Richard Taylor Imitation as Mastery, Sergei Eisenstein Some Personal Reflections on taboo, Sergei Eisenstein Part II Eisenstein's Roots
6. Eisenstein and Russian Symbolist Culture: An Unknown Script of October, Yuri Tsivian
7. Eisenstein's Theatre Work, Robert Leach
8. Eisenstein's Pushkin Project, Haken Lovgren
9. Eisenstein and Shakespeare, N.M. Lary
10. Graphic Flourish: Aspects of the Art of Mis-en-scene, Arun Khopkar Part III The Practice of Theory
11. Eisenstein as Theoretician, Edoardo Grossi
12. The Essential Bone-Structure: Mimesis in Eisenstein, Mikhail Yampolsky
13. Eisenstein and the Theory of `Models': or, How to Distract the Spectator's Attention, Myriam Tsikournas
14. Eisenstein and the Theory of the Photogram, Francois Albera,
15. The Frame and Montage in Eisenstein's `Later' Aesthetics, Michael O'Pray Notes
    

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