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.