One of the iconic directors of twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known for films such as The Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevskii, and Ivan the Terrible. His work, in turn, has inspired other great moviemakers, including Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola. This is the first English-language edition of Eisenstein s recently discovered notes for a general history of the cinema, a project he undertook in the years before his death in 1948. He presents a vast genealogy of the various media and art forms that preceded cinema s birth and...
One of the iconic directors of twentieth-century cinema, Sergei Eisenstein is best known for films such as The Battleship Potemkin, Alexande...
Sergei Eisenstein is regarded as one of cinema's greatest revolutionaries. Less well known is that he was also a prolific graphic artist who drew compulsively as a means of expressing his ideas.
Arranged chronologically, Eisenstein on Paper is divided into six chapters, each prefaced by short texts relating to the graphic works of each distinct period, and interwoven with excerpts from Eisenstein's own essays and diary entries. In 1930 Eisenstein traveled to the United States and then Mexico, where he produced hundreds of drawings influenced by ancient and contemporary...
Sergei Eisenstein is regarded as one of cinema's greatest revolutionaries. Less well known is that he was also a prolific graphic artist who drew c...
