Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema

An Iconic Figure In Twentieth-century Cinema, Sergei M. Eisenstein Directed Landmark Films Such As Battleship Potemkin And Ivan The Terrible And Authored A Vast Body Of Theoretical Texts. This Is The First English-language Edition Of His Recently Rediscovered Notes For A 'general History Of Cinema.' In These, Eisenstein Presents A Fascinating Genealogy Of The Media And Art Forms That Preceded The Birth Of Cinema And Accompanied Its First Decades. Cinema Is Presented As A Medium In Constant Flux And As Heir To An Expansive Tradition, Ranging From Dionysian Mysteries To Death Masks And Mummies, From Wax Museums To Dioramas And Panoramas, Pursuing A Breathtaking Trajectory 'from Dionysus To Television.' Eisenstein's Notes Are Accompanied By A Series Of Previously Unpublished Critical Essays By Internationally Recognized Eisenstein Scholars--back Cover. Foreword / Naum Kleiman -- Cinema As Dynamic Mummification, History As Montage : Einstein's Media Archaeology / Antonio Somaini -- Notes For A General History Of Cinema / Sergei M. Eisenstein -- What Renders Daumier's Art So Cinematic For Eisenstein? / Ada Ackerman -- The Heritage We Renounce : Eisenstein In Historio-graphy / François Albera -- The Notes For A General History Of Cinema And The Dialectic Of The Eistensteinian Image / Luka Arsenjuk -- Act Now!, Or For An Untimely Eistenstein / Nico Baumbach -- Pathos And Praxis (eisenstein Versus Barthes) / Georges Didi-huberman -- Eisenstein's Absolutely Wonderful, Totally Impossible Project / Jane Gaines -- Dynamic Typicality / Abe Geil -- Archaeology Vs. Paleontology : A Note On Eisenstein's Notes For A General History Of Cinema / Vinzenz Hediger -- Point--pathos--totality / Mikhail Iampolski -- Distant Echoes / Arun Khopkar -- Synthesis Of The Arts Or Friendly Cooperation Between The Arts? : The General History Of Cinema According To Eistenstein / Pietro Montani -- Eisenstein's Mummy Complex : Temporality, Trauma, And A Distinction In Eisenstein's Notes For A General History Of Cinema / Philip Rosen -- Sergei Eisenstein And The Soviet Models For The Study Of Cinema, 1920s-1940s / Masha Salazkina And Natalie Ryabchikova. Edited By Naum Kleiman & Antonio Somaini ; Translations From Russian By Margo Shohl Rosen, Brinton Tench Coxe, And Natalie Ryabchikova. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 415-523) And Index. Translated From The Russian.