/13/ Film Form / Essays in Film Theory / Sergei Eisenstein

Film Form together with The Film Sense, by internationally renowned Soviet director, are regarded as classic statements on the aesthetics of film-making. Film Form draws together twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demostrate key points in the development of Eisenstein´s film theory and in particular his analisys of the sound-film medium. Among the essays are several discussions of the Kabuki theatre, "Methods of Montage," "A Dialectic Approach to film form," "The Filmic Fourth Dimension," "Film Languaje," and "Dickens, Griffith, and the film today." Also included is a statement on the sound-film by Eisenstein, Pudovking, and Alexandrov; "Notes from a Director´s Laboratory," written during work on Ivan the Terrible; and all the diagrams and photographs of the original edition.

"By turns savagely polemical and whimsically humorous...Eisenstein´s last book, like all his writings, is on fire with imagination...Jay Leyda, well-known authority on Eisenstein´s work, has done an excellently thorough job of editing and translating." -Saturday Review-

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, who was born in Riga in 1898, first achieved world fame with his silent film Potenkin in 1925. Although he completed only six films before his death in 1948, he is considered one of the most influential film-makers and film theoreticians of our time.