Lines of resistance
Subtitle: Dziga Vertov and the twenties
By: edited and with an introduction by Yuri Tsivian ; Russian texts translated by Julian Graffy ; filmographic and biographical research, Aleksandr Deriabin ; co-researchers, Oksana Sarkisova, Sarah Keller, Theresa Scandiffio.
Contributors: Tsivian, Yuri.
Publisher: Le Giornate del cinema muto
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Gemona, Udine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Vertov, Dziga, 1896-1954.
Description: "This book is a collection of little-known writings by and about Dziga Vertov. It follows the development of his work and opinions from 1917 to 1930, and chronicles contemporary reactions to them - from critics whose names are now forgotten, as well as such prominent personalities as fellow directors Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Eisenstein, artists Aleksandr Rodchenko and Kazimir Malevich, and theorists Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer."--Jacket.
Notes: Filmography: p. 403-409.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published on the occasion of the first comprehensive retrospective of the films of D. Vertov, presented at the 23rd edition of Le Giornate del cinema muto, Sacile, 2004.
"This book is a selection of texts by Vertov, on Vertov, or related to Vertov, most of them written or taken down at different points in the 1920s"--Introd.