The Cinema of Eisenstein by Bordwell, David (9781138140578)

The Cinema of Eisenstein

by Bordwell, David

Hardcover - English

The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented Soviet realism to the world, and mastered the concept of film epic. Comprehensive, authoritative, and illustrated throughout, this classic work deserves to be on the shelf of every serious student of cinema.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1138140570

EAN

9781138140578

Publisher

ROUTLEDGE

Publication Date

14 Apr 2016

Pages

342

About Author

David Bordwell is Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a master's degree and a doctorate in film from the University of Iowa. His books include "The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer" (University of California Press, 1981), "Narration in the Fiction Film" (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), "Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema" (Princeton University Press, 1988), "Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema" (Harvard University Press, 1989), "The Cinema of Eisenstein" (Harvard University Press, 1993), "On the Hist