 | Movement, Action, Image, Montage: Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis A major new study of Sergei Eisenstein delivers fresh, in-depth analyses of the iconic filmmaker's body of work Focusing on Eisenstein's unique treatment of the foundational concepts of cinema--movement, action, image, and montage--Arsenjuk invests each aspect of the auteur's art with new significance for the twenty-first century. Eisenstein's work and thought, he argues, belong as much to the future as the past, and both can offer novel contributions to long-standing cinematic questions and debates. Movement, Action, Image, Montage brings new elements of Eisenstein's output into academic consideration, by means ranging from sustained and comprehensive theorization of Eisenstein's practice as a graphic artist to purposeful engagement with his recently published, unfinished book Method , still unavailable in English translation. This tour de force offers new and significant insights on Eisenstein's oeuvre--the films, the art, and the theory--and is a landmark work on an essential filmmaker. Luka Arsenjuk is associate professor of film studies and core faculty member in comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. |
