Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov
"To recognize [Vertov's] centrality is to open oneself to the  possibility that the most passionate and inventive movies of the past  eight  decades may not have been the narrative features at all, but rather the  documentaries and the experimental films, the seven-minute animations  and the  four-minute rock videos. . . . Vertov's case, as the distinguished film  scholar  and theorist Annette Michelson suggests in her lengthy and brilliantly  argued  introduction to this collection of the filmmaker's manifestos, journal  excerpts,  and production notes, is a special one."  --J. Hoberman, The New Republic