Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a film-maker, theorist and teacher of film. This edition of his memoirs has been translated from the definitive Russian text by William Powell and annotated by Richard Taylor, an authority on Soviet cinema.
Memoirs of motion picture director, Sergei Eisenstein, 1898-1948; translated from Russian text.
Memoirs of motion picture director, Sergei Eisenstein, 1898-1948; translated from Russian text.
Guy Debord is one of the 20th Century's most prophetic critics. His bestselling work, Society of the Spectacle, decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life. Since his suicide in 1994, the accuracy and pertinence of his writings on thos…
Artists and dictators -- Art and ethics. Tzvetan Todorov explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics. In one essay he traces the intimate relationship between avant-garde art and radical politics in pre-revolutionary Russia, pre-fascist Italy, and pre-Nazi …
Tzvetan Todorov explores the complex relations between art, politics and ethics in the two essays that make up The Limits of Art. In the first essay, 'Artists and Dictators', he traces the intimate relationship between avant-garde art and radical politics in pre-revolutionary Ru…
"People have argued since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of life, of human experience. But we now live in times when any form of protest in India is marked as anti-Indian and met with arguments that the very concept of dissent was imported into India from the West. As R…
