Savage junctures
Subtitle: Sergei Eisenstein and the shape of thinking
By: Anne Nesbet.
Series: KINO, the Russian cinema series
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Anne Nesbet's aim in Savage Junctures is to return some of the shock to our perception of Sergei Eisenstein's films and writings. Based on extensive research in the Eisenstein archives, this book explores Eisenstein's omnivorous consumption of high and low culture and his wide-ranging experiments in 'thinking in pictures'. Savage Junctures pays close attention to the multiple contexts within which Eisenstein's films evolved. Eisenstein was particularly interested in the possibilities of visual thinking and, in this spirit, each chapter addresses the question of his image-based philosophy from a different perspective. Each also offers a fundamentally new interpretation on the films and writings that make up his oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index.