Eisenstein: Documentary Portrait - Hardcover

Swallow, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0047910348 ISBN 13: 9780047910340

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1976

Synopsis

Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based on the personal recollections of those who knew him. Originally published in 1976, it is illustrated with over forty photographs, stills and drawings, among them Eisenstein’s delightful childhood sketches and some of his designs for the theatre and the cinema.

The recollections were mostly originally recorded by Norman Swallow for a film made for the BBC over a period of two years in Moscow, Leningrad, Riga and Odessa, as well as in Western Europe and the USA. The result is a vivid composite portrait of one of the greatest, as well as one of the most controversial, figures in the history of the cinema.

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About the Author:

Alison Jackson is the award-winning artist who created the BBC TV series Double Take and the internationally acclaimed Schweppes advertising campaign. After studying sculpture and then Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art in London, Alison's work, has for the last five years, astonished and sometimes shocked audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0047910348
• ISBN 13: 9780047910340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 156