Sergei Eisenstein

Author : Ronald Bergan
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628726268

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Sergei Eisenstein by Ronald Bergan Pdf

Now back in print, this acclaimed biography reassesses a titan of early cinema based on new material released after the fall of the Soviet Union. Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict tells the dramatic story of one of world cinema’s towering geniuses and principal theorists. Ronald Bergan details Eisenstein’s life from his precocious childhood to his explosion onto the avant-garde scene in revolutionary Russia, through his groundbreaking film career, his relationships with authors and artists such as James Joyce and Walt Disney, and his untimely death at age fifty. Eisenstein’s landmark films, including The Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible, are still watched, admired, and taught throughout the world. Drawing upon material recently released from the Soviet archives after the breakup of the USSR and from Eisenstein’s personal letters, diaries, and sketches, Bergan shines a new light on the influence of Eisenstein’s early life on his work, his homosexuality, and his keen interest in the West. This book is the definitive biography of an influential director who saw film as the synthesis of all the arts and whose work displayed a passionate and profound grasp of art, science, philosophy, and religion.

Author : Marie Rebecchi,Elena Vogman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8880560042

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Il trucco c'è by Marie Rebecchi,Elena Vogman Pdf

Author : Mike O'Mahony
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781861894496

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Sergei Eisenstein by Mike O'Mahony Pdf

A major influence on such filmmakers as Hitchcock, Godard, Fellini, and Scorsese, Sergei Eisenstein left an enduring legacy that was deeply informed by the political realities of early-twentieth-century Soviet Communism. In Sergei Eisenstein, Mike O’Mahony uses this historical lens to examine the richly diverse films, writings, and artwork of one of the foremost filmmakers of the twentieth century. Drawing on an extensive archive of Eisenstein’s published and unpublished writings, O’Mahony situates his oeuvre in the social and political context of the first three decades of Communist rule in the Soviet Union. The book analyzes his most influential films—including Battleship Potemkin, October, and Aleksandr Nevskii—as well as his uncompleted film projects, pioneering theories and methods, and copious archive of writings and drawings. O’Mahony examines how Eisenstein’s projects were generated or constrained by his volatile and complex personality, ongoing political events, and the conflict between his beliefs the Stalinist regime and his beliefs as a Bolshevik artist. The arcs of success and defeat in Eisenstein’s career, the book ultimately reveals, are inextricably intertwined with these fraught political and personal circumstances. An in-depth and thoughtful biographical treatment, Sergei Eisenstein gives us a new, richer understanding of this standard-bearer in modern filmmaking, making this an accessible and essential read for historians, scholars of film history, and movie buffs alike.

Author : Alberto Angelini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781003836735

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sergei M. Eisenstein's Work by Alberto Angelini Pdf

In this insightful book, Alberto Angelini shows the influence of psychoanalysis and psychology on Sergei M. Eisenstein, one of the most celebrated Russian directors, and his cinematic output. Angelini situates Eisenstein’s life and oeuvre in the history and culture of twentieth-century Russia, drawing clear parallels between his networking with key figures such as Lev Vygotsky and Aleksandr Luria. He utilises the tools of psychology with the insight of psychoanalysis to illuminate the ways in which Eisenstein understood art as an anthropological enterprise while maintaining the same dialectical philosophy as the director in highlighting the many disciplines and figures that he drew inspiration from. Angelini also looks in depth at the influence psychoanalytic theories of regression had on Eisenstein’s approach to art, while examining the impact Stalinism had directly on both Eisenstein and psychoanalysis at large from the 1930s onwards. This book is an essential resource for psychoanalysts, students, and scholars of film studies, as well as those interested in the intersection between psychoanalytic theory, cinema, and the arts.

Author : Masha Salazkina
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226734163

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In Excess by Masha Salazkina Pdf

During the 1920s and ’30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals—including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky—who were drawn to the heady tumult engendered by battling cultural ideologies in an emerging center for the avant-garde. Against the backdrop of this cosmopolitan milieu, In Excess reconstructs the years that the renowned Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent in the country to work on his controversial film ¡Que Viva Mexico! Illuminating the inextricability of Eisenstein’s oeuvre from the global cultures of modernity and film, Masha Salazkina situates this unfinished project within the twin contexts of postrevolutionary Mexico and the ideas of such contemporaneous thinkers as Walter Benjamin. In doing so, Salazkina explains how Eisenstein’s engagement with Mexican mythology, politics, and art deeply influenced his ideas, particularly about sexuality. She also uncovers the role Eisenstein’s bisexuality played in his creative thinking and identifies his use of the baroque as an important turn toward excess and hybrid forms. Beautifully illustrated with rare photographs, In Excess provides the most complete genealogy available of major shifts in this modern master’s theories and aesthetics.

Author : Marie Seton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024627353

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Sergei M. Eisenstein by Marie Seton Pdf

Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 141021415X

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Problems of Film Direction by Sergei Eisenstein Pdf

Sergei Eisenstein is arguably the most important single figure in the history of movies. He was certainly the most versatile. The director of the masterpieces Battleship Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein also wrote ground-breaking essays on film art and taught classes on motion picture production. In this book Eisenstein writes about film directing.

Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : HMH
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780547539478

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Film Form by Sergei Eisenstein Pdf

A classic on the aesthetics of filmmaking from the pioneering Soviet director who made Battleship Potemkin. Though he completed only a half-dozen films, Sergei Eisenstein remains one of the great names in filmmaking, and is also renowned for his theory and analysis of the medium. Film Form collects twelve essays, written between 1928 and 1945, that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein’s film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Jay Leyda, this volume allows modern-day film students and fans to gain insights from the man who produced classics such as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible and created the renowned “Odessa Steps” sequence.

Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0156309351

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The Film Sense by Sergei Eisenstein Pdf

A renowned Soviet director discusses his theory of film as an artistic medium which must appeal to all senses and applies it to an analysis of sequences from his major movies.

Author : Sandra Kuberski
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783656859819

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Sergei Eisenstein’s Montage Techniques and their Meanings in Comparison to Louis Buñuel’s "Un Chien Andalou" by Sandra Kuberski Pdf

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of Essex (Film), course: Introduction to Film, language: English, abstract: In the 1930s the Soviet revolutionary cinema changed the former understanding of film editing, ahead of everyone Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), whose aim it was to promote the idea of political rebellion. Cinema was the easiest way to transport a political conviction to all people, from upper class to peasants, who were unable to read. Truth could be boring and so the events had to be dramatized to encourage imitation. This essay will examine the innovative montage techniques of Eisenstein and their meanings with emphasis on The Battleship Potemkin . In addition, a comparison to Louis Buñuel’s Un chien andalou , one of the most famous Surrealist films, will be drawn. The movement of Surrealism grew out of a Parisian society of artists, writers and filmmakers who tried to create an immediate translation of dreams, imagination and the unconscious. The recipient should be dissuaded from his habitual viewing or thinking patterns.

Author : Oksana Bulgakowa
Publisher : Potemkinpress
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 3980498980

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Sergei Eisenstein by Oksana Bulgakowa Pdf

Eisenstein's life was full of unforeseen diversions and turns of events. This biography came into being after extensive research in Moscow, Berlin, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles. The author analyzes Eisenstein's diaries and correspondence, materials that were previously inaccessible.

Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0720615577

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Immoral Memories by Sergei Eisenstein Pdf

"Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), creator of such masterpieces as Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, was perhaps the greatest of all film directors. He wrote his autobiography in 1946, two years before his death, and it is a work of major importance in the light it sheds on his personality and mercurial genius. Vivid, eccentric and free-ranging, Immoral Memories is written in a style reminiscent of the brilliant visual effects of montage and dynamic progression that characterize its author's film-making technique. He recounts his life in Russia from the time of the Revolution, during which he served in the Bolshevik army as a volunteer, his travels in the West and his encounters with a remarkable medley of individuals during his long career. He gives us unique insights, too, into his triumphs and tribulations. His disappointments and despair were exemplified by the banning of the film Ivan the Terrible, Part II, which was not released until fifteen years after his death. And he never expected his autobiography to be published in Russia. Yet in answer to his query "Has there been life" he replied that there had been "life lived acutely, joyously, tormentedly, at times even sparkling, unquestionably colourful, and such a life that, I suppose, I would not exchange for another""--Publisher's description.

Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857424904

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On the Detective Story by Sergei Eisenstein Pdf

Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and Battleship Potemkin, as well as, in the sound era, the historical epics Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible--he also was a theorist whose insights into the workings of film were so powerful that they remain influential for both filmmakers and scholars today. ​Seagull Books is embarking on a series of translations of key works by Eisenstein into English. On the Detective Story presents Eisenstein's elaborate study, in four essays and fragments, of the use of dialectical thinking in the creation of art and literature. Drawing on major works from Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Balzac, Gogol, Mayakovsky, Dostoevsky, and more, and ranging from folk tales to contemporary detective stories, it shows the keenly analytic quality of Eisenstein's mind when it turned to questions of creative work.

Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : Drama
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Criticism & Analysis
ISBN : 0413196402

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Eisenstein on Disney by Sergei Eisenstein Pdf

Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : UCSC:32106018785474

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Beyond the Stars by Sergei Eisenstein Pdf

Memoirs of motion picture director, Sergei Eisenstein, 1898-1948; translated from Russian text.