The film form : essays in film /

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948.

The film form : essays in film / by Sergei M. Eisenstein ; transl. and ed. by Jay Leyda. - New York ; London : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1949] - xi, 279 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - A Harvest/HBJ Book .

Through theater to cinema --
The unexpected --
The cinematographic principle and the ideogram --
A dialectic approach to film form --
The filmic fourth dimension --
Methods of montage --
A course in treatment --
Film language --
Film form : New problems --
The structure of the film --
Achievement --
Dickens, Griffith, and the film today --
A statement on the sound-film by Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Alexandrov --
Notes from a director's laboratory.

"Film form draws together 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 ... "--Page 4 de la couverture.

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Motion pictures.
Cine

PN 1995 / E36f 1949

791.43