"Anne Nesbet's aim in Savage Junctures is to return some of the shock to our perception of Sergei Eisenstein's films and writings. Based on extensive research in the Eisenstein archives, this book explores Eisenstein's omnivorous consumption of high and low culture and his wide-…
"The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive's content stands as a quasi-o…
Red aesthetics: Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein
by Cronan, Todd
fromCultural studies and Marxism
"This book is a synthesis of Rodchenko, Brecht and Eisenstein. Amongst the most influential artists of the interwar period, and among the most influential political artists of the century, between them they tried to develop a socialist theory of art, and a red aesthetic centered…
Red aesthetics: Rodchenko, Brecht, Eisenstein
by Cronan, Todd
fromCultural studies and Marxism
"This book is a synthesis of Rodchenko, Brecht and Eisenstein. Amongst the most influential artists of the interwar period, and among the most influential political artists of the century, between them they tried to develop a socialist theory of art, and a red aesthetic centered…
First published in 1969, 'Signs and Meaning in the Cinema' helped transform the discipline of film studies by incorporating the methodology of structuralism and semiotics. This new edition explores the way in which a new approach to the cinema can be combined with a new approach…
