Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema) - Hardcover

Swallow, Norman

 
9780415726559: Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415726557 ISBN 13: 9780415726559
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

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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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415726557
ISBN 13 
9780415726559
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
160