Description:
One of the iconic figures of the 20th cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known as the director of The Battleship Potemkin. This comprehensive volume of Eisenstein's writings is the first ever English-language edition of his newly discovered notes for a general history of the cinema, a project he undertook in 1946-47 before his death in 1948.
Brief description: Naum Kleiman is director of the Film Museum in Moscow, director of the Eisenstein Center, and editor of the Russian editions of some of Eisenstein's most important theoretical works.
Review Quotes: "Unpublishable during his lifetime, [Eisenstein's] elliptical, often cryptic texts were only recently exhumed from the Eisenstein archive; they are published in this impressive volume along with extended reflections contributed by eminent international film scholars (editors included) on the director's later film theory. Highly recommended" - S. Liebman, *Choice Magazine* "The notes for [Eisenstein's] publication, [...] accompanied by smart essays by a wide range of cinema scholars, all lovingly edited by Naum Kleiman and Antonio Somaini, reveal Eisenstein at his most intellectually ambitious and capacious." - *Film Quarterly* "This volume, to its great credit, expands productively the study of Eisenstein's film theory as well as prompting new approaches to film history through discontinuities, jumps, and the resonance of past and present developments in art." - Zdenko Mandu¿ic, Saint Louis University, *Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television*, 2017 Vol. 37