The primal phenomenon
Subtitle: art
By: Sergei Eisenstein ; edited by Oksana Bulgakowa and Dietmar Hochmuth ; translated by Dustin Condren
Contributors: Bulgakowa, Oksana, editor; Hochmuth, Dietmar, editor; Condren, Dustin, translator
Publisher: PotemkinPress
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Berlin; San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9783943190120; 9783943190137
Subjects: Manuscripts; Motion pictures; Plots, themes; Production and direction; Aesthetics; Philosophy
Work titles: Metod
Notes: Translated from the Russian.

"This translation is based on the text of Eisenstein's Metod/Methode, edited and commented by Oksana Bulgakowa (Berlin : Potemkin Press, 2009). Passages are taken from Volume I, p. 45-73 and Volume II, p. 435-630. This edition consists of two parts - the main text, never completed, that addresses the connections between rhythm, movement, dramatic situation, and plot (1942-1943) and an appendix with the original plan for the booka nd the initial notes for it (1932-1937)."--P. following t.p.

"The manuscript is online at www.metod.info, complete with search options and commentary fuctions"--P. following t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rhythm and repetition. [Recoil and expressive movement]; title: To the question of dramatic situation, plot, and character; title: [On the detective novel]; title: The tale of a certain Romeo and a certain Juliet; title: A chapter on Dostoevsky; title: The elements of form. 'A catalog'; title: Die rhythmische Trommel [Rhythmic drumming]; title: Afterword: Psychology of form.