Main entry:

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948.

Title & Author:

Film form : essays in film theory / Sergei Eisenstein, edited and translated by Jay Leyda.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publication:

New York, Harcourt, Brace [1949]

Description:

xi, 279 pages illustrations 21 cm.

Series:

A Harvest/HBJ book

Notes:
"Sources": pages 268-272.
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.
Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

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. Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Jay Leyda; Index; photographs and diagrams.

ISBN:

0156309203 (paperback)
9780156309202 (paperback)

Subject:

Motion pictures.
Motion pictures Philosophy.

Form/genre:

Motion pictures.
Films.

Added entries:

Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988, editor, translator.
Harvest/HBJ book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212139
Call No.: PN1995 .E5 1949
Status: Available