Theory of the film : (character and growth of a new art) (1952)

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Title:
Theory of the film : (character and growth of a new art)
Date:
1952
Publisher:
London : Dennis Dobson Ltd.
Volume:
Theory of the film : (character and growth of a new art)
Leaf #:
000315
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 15, 2025
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FILM FORM Sergei Eisenstein The compilation of this book was one of the last tasks of the great director of 'Ten Days that Shook the World', 'Alexander Nevsky', and other great masterpieces of the cinema. Eisenstein was an experimenter, an innovator, and the possessor of one of the most active minds ever to apply its talents to the film medium. In his way he was the same stimulative giant to films that Joyce is to literature or Picasso to modern painting. Consequently, this book which supplements his previous 'The Film Sense' is vitally important for any person interested in the film. Of his hundreds of essays, this group was selected to show certain keypoints in the development of his film theory and, in particular, of his analysis of the sound-film medium. This is obviously a basic book and must find a place in every public and private library which has a section devoted to the theatre and cinema. 'Film Form is undeniably the work of one of the few genuine artists the cinema has yet produced.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT l8s. net