Film Form
eBook - ePub

Film Form

Essays in Film Theory

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Film Form

Essays in Film Theory

About this book

A classic on the aesthetics of filmmaking from the pioneering Soviet director who made Battleship Potemkin.
 
Though he completed only a half-dozen films, Sergei Eisenstein remains one of the great names in filmmaking, and is also renowned for his theory and analysis of the medium. Film Form collects twelve essays, written between 1928 and 1945, that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein's film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Jay Leyda, this volume allows modern-day film students and fans to gain insights from the man who produced classics such as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible and created the renowned "Odessa Steps" sequence.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Introduction
  5. Through Theater To Cinema
  6. The Unexpected
  7. The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram
  8. A Dialectic Approach To Film Form
  9. Photos
  10. The Filmic Fourth Dimension
  11. Methods of Montage
  12. A Course In Treatment
  13. Film Language
  14. Film Form: New Problems
  15. The Structure of The Film
  16. Achievement
  17. Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today
  18. Appendix A
  19. Appendix B
  20. Notes on Texts and Translations
  21. Sources
  22. Index
  23. About the Author
  24. Footnotes