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Sergei Eisenstein
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Sergei Eisenstein
Examines the Russian filmmaker's innovations, theory, techniques, major films, aesthetics and legacy.
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"The essential elements of film theory were developed in the silent era by Soviet filmmakers intent on explaining the power of this new medium and in making of it a political and social tool, one that could be used in furtherance of the aims of the Soviet state. Indeed, the film theory that developed after 1917 mirrored the dialectics of Hegel, with successive shots seen as offering opposing ideas from which a synthesis was then produced that would have a certain effect on the viewer. Sergei Eisenstein represented one branch of Soviet film theory, a revolutionary branch that was exemplified in his films from the beginning and identified with his ideas of montage, or the ordering of individual shots to produce an effect. Eisenstein was a theorist as well as a filmmaker and was extremely influential through his writings on film as well as through the..."More papers on Sergei Eisenstein:
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