The short fiction scenario /
Eisenstein, Sergei,1898-1948.
Upchurch, Alan Y.,translator.
Presents a master-class turning a short story into an effective film ... analyses in painstaking detail two parallel scripts made out of the same story [Nikolai Shpikovsky's Banner (Znamia) as Leonid Leonov's Feast at Zhimunka (Pir v Zhirmunke)], and ... explains why one works better. [Also imagines at length adapting Ambrose Bierce's The Affair at Coulter's Notch. Describes excitation and compression of the plot through the use of imagery as found in: Honore Daumier's and Michelangelo's depiction of movement, and the works of writers Tolstoy, Edgar Lee Masters, Ford Madox Ford, and more]--
On the composition of the short fiction scenario.
"This essay was originally given as a lecture to the assembled Filmakers of Moscow soon after the German invasion of June 1941"--Page [5].
Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the Russian.
Essays and lectures.
Presents a master-class turning a short story into an effective film ... analyses in painstaking detail two parallel scripts made out of the same story [Nikolai Shpikovsky's Banner (Znamia) as Leonid Leonov's Feast at Zhimunka (Pir v Zhirmunke)], and ... explains why one works better. [Also imagines at length adapting Ambrose Bierce's The Affair at Coulter's Notch. Describes excitation and compression of the plot through the use of imagery as found in: Honore Daumier's and Michelangelo's depiction of movement, and the works of writers Tolstoy, Edgar Lee Masters, Ford Madox Ford, and more]--
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
Leonov, Leonid, 1899-1994
Shpikovskiĭ, Nikolaĭ, 1897-1977.
Pir v Zhirmunke (Film)
Film adaptations
Short stories
Motion picture plays
Short films
Motion picture authorship.