Movement, action, image, montage
Subtitle: Sergei Eisenstein and the cinema in crisis
By: Luka Arsenjuk
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781517903190; 9781517903206
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Luka Arsenjuk considers Sergei Eisenstein as a filmmaker and a theorist, drawing on philosophers such as G.W.F. Hegel and Gilles Deleuze - as well as Eisenstein's untranslated texts - to reframe how we think about the great director and his legacy."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a dialectic of division; title: The figure-in-crisis: from intuition to the dialectic, from kinematography to cinematic movement; title: The form problem: the grotesque and the epic in action; title: The event of the image: between symbol and symptom; title: Montage of forms: concept and witz, organicism and the comic; title: Conclusion: Eisenstein, ourselves.