Yuri Vorontsov; Igor Rachuk - The phenomenon of the Soviet cinema (1980)

Author: Yuri Vorontsov; Igor Rachuk
Publisher: Moskva : Progress Publishers, 1980
Edition/Format: Print book : English

Related Subjects:

Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History.
Cinéma -- URSS -- Histoire.
Motion pictures.
Soviet Union.

Sergei M. Eisenstein - Drawings (1961)

Рисунки. Dessins. Drawings.
by Sergei M. Eisenstein

Hardcover: 228 pages
Publisher: Publishing House "Iskustvo" (Art) (May 30, 1961)
Language: Russian, English, French
Product Dimensions: 62 x 94.8

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).

Eisenstein's book presents his drawings and sketches for his films of different years as well as trilingual texts: essays by Y. Pimenov ("The Drawings of Eisenstein"), Olga Aisenstat ("Eisenstein the Graphic Artist"), Gennady Myasnikov ("Director's View of the Film") and Eisenstein himself ("How I Learned to Draw" and "A Few Words about My Drawings").

Robert Bird - Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema (2008)

A revered filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky is secure in the long and illustrious line of Russian masters in arts and letters. Linking cinematic technique to broader questions of meaning and intrepretation, Robert Bird offers a wholly original investigation into the aesthetic principles of Tarvkovsky's filmmaking. While providing a comprehensive analysis of his work in all media, including radio, theatre and opera, Bird argues that Tarkovsky was most at home in the cinema. Accordingly, the author dwells chiefly on Tarkovsky's major films: Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and Sacrifice. With its wealth of film stills and photographs, this book is a key text for all admirers of Tarkovsky and European cinema.

Andrei Tarkovsky - Sculpting in Time (1989)

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This extraordinary book is not just about filmmaking, it's about all art...about life, faith, inner exploration and the Russian soul. It contains exquisite poetry, mostly written by his father, Arseniy Tarkovsky, and detailed descriptions of the making of several of his films as well as photos of them that are eerie, mystical, and incredibly beautiful. Tarkovsky is the master of making us see the wonder of creation in the most mundane subjects. He brings us one step closer in our journey towards the light. From page 43: "The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good".

Sergei M. Eisenstein - Sergei Eisenstein and Montage ()

14 pages about Sergei Eisenstein and Montage.

Sergei M. Eisenstein - The psychology of composition (1988)

'Watson and Scotland Yard always work along the line of direct
logic, Sherlock Holmes works not by logic, but by dialectics'. This
dialectics, in its turn, draws on 'the whole fund of prelogical,
sensuous thought' that 'serves as a fund of the language of form' that
Eisenstein defines as 'readable expressiveness'. Eisenstein's
elaborate study of a method of art rooted in 'the twilight stage of
primitive thought' moves from folk tales to Shakespeare, Balzac,
Gogol, Tolstoi, Dostoevsky, and Mayakovsky, to come eventually to
the detective story, 'the most effective genre of literature' and 'the
most naked expression of bourgeois society's fundamental ideas on
property', as it is told by Poe, Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, Ellery
Queen, and Hitchcock in Spellbound.
Writing while he was making Ivan, Eisenstein opens up, in his
characteristic manner, a whole area of thinking on 'the psychology
of composition'. Published in English for the first time, these lectures
and lecture notes have been assembled and translated by Jay Leyda
and Alan Upchurch.