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Date: 28.XII.47 One more device*: Mechanizationofmotion Moving silhouettes, shadows Playofhands Two-dimensionalWayangandChinesetransparentcolorful[figures]. Lanternemagique*[inFrench:magiclantern]withmovingparts(Irememberitfrom mychildhood). Moving mechanism outside Three-dimensionalmarionettes.Puppeteer’stechnique. GuignolandPetrushka. Animatedthreedimensionaldoll(byhandmovement) Synchronizedby changingvoiceofmanipulator*. Moving mechanism inside Automatedfigures. Moving toys (cages with birds of the 18th century). Mechanical toys. Moving wax figures(Cleopatraandasp). Moving mechanism in projection Directlyfromthesecartoonfigures(three-dimensional).Starevich.(Ptushko). 89 Mechanical sound Musicalboxes. Mechanicalpianos. Rollswithperforations. 1807Kymograph—movingcylinderforrecording continuousmovement(ThomasYoung) 1857Phonautograph.Voicevibrationsrecordedonrevolvingcylinder(Edouard-LéonScottde Martinville) 1877Microphone,Phonograph(Edison) dynamic mumification 151
1870Celluloid(JohnWesleyandIsaiahHyatt) 90 Artistic organization of moving phenomena in time Movement of the viewer Architectural ensemble and the taking into consideration of the duration of the shiftintheaudience’simpressions. Problemofrhythm. Acropolis(Choisy). 91 Englishpark. Michelangelo’ssquare 92 . Intérieur*[inFrench:Interior]St.Sophia Chartres. 93 Procession(Gregor) 94 (See“TheHeir”,Ill.2) Movement of an object Dithyrambofchorusandentrancespageant* Collectivedance,dividedinto... Lessonsofmusicandorganizationofsoundintoscales Moving photography Marionettes (movement from outside) Automated things(movementfrominside) puppeteer mechanism Shadowtheater(movement,thereflectionoftheobject; first[itwas]thesilhouette-shadow) puppetteer Movable photography Forerunners* Beforethem:inpainting,etc. 152 sergei m. eisenstein
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FILM THEORY IN MEDIA HISTORY SERGEI
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Film Theory in Media History explor
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This book is published in print and
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4. Act Now!, or For an Untimely Eis
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tors would like to warmly thank Jan
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not include here the diary entries
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Foreword Naum Kleiman In1997,onthee
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ideological “totalitarianism,”
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of writing the multivolume book on
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History of the USSR Academy of Scie
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Ill. 1 - A handwritten page from th
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Section 2 (Theory, History, Creatio
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dial perspective, as a medium remed
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only within the wider context of a
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three historicalperiods areintercut
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contained in Metod, the speech give
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One of the reasons why the Notes ca
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conception of the phases, while art
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presents it as one of the most impo
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ories continues to be present, and
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the past, the official aesthetic di
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In Montage, “synthesis” becomes
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ances of the idea of a total, synth
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“The Greeks, Diderot, Wagner, Scr
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sional films, as he writes in “Ab
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in literature in architecture etc.,
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up. The text “In Praise of the Ci
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nents. They both belong to “the h
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invented by Fox Talbot and the begi
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The only moment in which Eisenstein
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Khovanshchina, white as a tradition
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The myths and mysteries of Dionysus
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our perceptions work. This is not o
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is now what Eisenstein calls - with
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elements - a state that presumes th
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Such a dynamic generality of “the
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In writing poetry one is always aid
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His aspiration is toujours inassouv
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“primordial impulse” (ursprüng
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establishing the unmovable law of d
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time, the image of things is likewi
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possibilities, but rather thanks to
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[Riesenfilm] depicting the temporal
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panying “The Dramaturgy of Film F
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Both Eisenstein and Benjamin had fo
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In1932[sic]Ihadtriedtoorganizemythe
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Ill. 5 - A map drawn by Eisenstein
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Ill. 7 - Sergei M. Eisenstein, a dr
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The passage from the act of touchin
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endings of the tactile nerves are f
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And the most curious thing is that
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Ill. G, H, and I - Photograms from
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A Peruvian vessel with the sound of
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The Uzbeks’ need for incessant ba
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2)Howtheinventor’sthoughtstumbles
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Ill. 2 - Drawing dated 7.VII.47 on
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One can read the principle of “sy
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Butthunderinconnectionwithabsolutel
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(theEnglishtermis“windinstruments
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(NB.BothhereandtherethereisaflightI
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4 IN PRAISE OF THE CINE-CHRONICLE 1
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Incidentally, the prototype for thi
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Recollections of this phase (of the
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Thesecondsex*is“drawnon” forirr
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Ill. 6 Butinany: Ill. 7 Also[the“
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The aestheticized game with levels
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7.XI.47 [RGALI1923-2-1031] ÜBERGAN
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And more complex: metaphorical stru
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The year 1050. Lenses in antiquity.
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Ill. P, Q, and R - Photograms from
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Old and New didn’t turn out to be
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Traceherethegeneralgenealogyofthepr
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Part Two Essays
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Various (in terms of time) phases o
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From Expressive Movement to “Cine
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Ill. 2 - Honoré Daumier, Robert Ma
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disjunction as producing a “motor
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For Eisenstein, Futurism is little
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2. “The Heritage We Renounce”:
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goal was to encourage research and
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elations of intersection, belonging
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The case of Terry Ramsaye’s A Mil
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Kurt-WilhelmMarek(whosignedhistexts
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painters to raise a monument to the
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The “Cradle” of Cinema Oneofthe
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whole series of films dealing with
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course oneconsidersthehypermemoryto
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of a socio-political type often dom
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From then on Eisenstein connects go
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3. The Notes for a General History
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Ill. 1 - The first drawing: the bar
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An image of a barricade appears in
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the essential interpretation of phe
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note that this opposition between t
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4. Act Now!, or For an Untimely Eis
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Hugo Munsterberg was pioneering in
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with a language of ideas/sensations
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authorship of the film as it made p
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career. In the 1920s, of course, th
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Ill. 1 - Alexander Rodchenko, poste
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given in the form of single frames
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which, according to him, gave the e
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moment” which requires emphasis.
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which is neither fixed nor obvious.
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they are paranoid and instrumentali
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6. Eisenstein’s Absolutely Wonder
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which point towardagenealogical mod
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such chronologies lending themselve
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“here today, gone tomorrow,” or
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preted as a “displacement” in w
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7. Dynamic Typicality Abe Geil Eise
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present a “defined character pass
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caste system gave each person a phy
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years leading up to the adoption of
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Galton staked the superiority of hi
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ens to reverse the direction of cau
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principle of typicality offers a wa
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e seenfrom hisveryearly writingsBaz
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origin and descent. Reflecting on f
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metaphors lifted from biology. “T
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sublation. In fact one can even arg
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of art and the “realistic tendenc
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of an event (Memling, Botticelli’
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ary concepts as point of convergenc
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nant sound (dominante) is the princ
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internal affect takes place. Eisens
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English under the title “A Dialec
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Moreover, it is precisely the heter
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diction penetrates into the affect
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10. Distant Echoes 1 Arun Khopkar
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children, the craven-hearted and pr
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Nonanthropocentric View of the Worl
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workman’s tools, etc. One of the
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Everyone had drunk far too much tha
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Whether it is a sexual ecstasy, an
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mark next toit): “A friendly coop
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than a static one (the organism as
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It would be legitimate to recognize
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12. Eisenstein’s Mummy Complex: T
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ernity. One of the pillars of this
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tween them. The first category is d
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A pivot point in this conception, t
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“cine-chronicle” is thinking of
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ality for humanity and its subjecti
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13. Sergei Eisenstein and the Sovie
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was to focus on the Soviet cinema o
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neers such as Eisenstein) shaped mu
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the Venice Film Festival, sponsored
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claim to the universality of aesthe
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Bibliography Works by Eisenstein in
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Mettre en scène. Translated by Jac
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Ivanov, Viacheslav. “Estetika Eiz
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Roshal’, Lev. Gore umu, ili Eizen
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Iampolski,Mikhail.“TheoryasQuotat
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Taylor, Richard, and Ian Christie,
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Works on Eisenstein’s Drawings Ai
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6. Kinovedcheskie zapiski 36/37 (19
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5. In his essay published in this v
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28. The notion of “cultural serie
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Montage forthcoming from the Univer
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expressive movement of plants] […
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98. Montazh, p. 400. 99. Towards a
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cinematic dispositif as an open, fl
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indifferente (Venezia: Marsilio, 19
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244. Ibid., p. 12. 245. On the pres
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267. Jean Epstein, “L’Intellige
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315. Onthewayinwhichdifferentdefini
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Spanish bandit El Maragato, in 1806
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2. Verweile doch, du bist so schön
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once set off down such a promising
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[“Dvizhenie tsveta”] for the un
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“Pushkin and Gogol” (1946-48) h
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piecesofmusicandcreatedabout300pain
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along with a plan of the city. The
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1948) (cf. S.M. Eisenstein, Glass H
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108. Reference to one of the most p
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134. Eisenstein devoted several ent
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154. About this see Eisenstein’s
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illustrations by Gustave Doré (183
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Eisenstein of “thingism” [veshc
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Fedotov (1815-1852), one of Eisenst
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ofnatural phenomena andofthemytholo
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to shoot double exposures for Bezhi
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cinemawizardoftelevision,whowillbef
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4. Eisenstein writes about this in
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16. Unit 881, fund 1923, opus 2, Ru
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thousands of European and American
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“teleological” default for whic
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46. Georges Friedmann, “Sur une h
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EarlySovietCulture(DeKalb:NorthernI
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themselves” without the interfere
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sculptural group on the opera build
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characters’; in other words of an
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3. Lev Vygotsky, The Psychology of
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[New Brunswick: Rutgers University
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Turn-of-the-Century.” in Rethinki
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37. Galton, Inquiries into Human Fa
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26. Cf. my “A Cinema of Memory in
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31. “À partir de la félicité d
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7. Many of the traditional theatric
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deities, many of which are phenomen
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12. Philip Rosen, Eisenstein’s Mu
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17. Cristophe Dupin, “The Postwar
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Index of names NB The page numbers
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Brasillach, Robert 21, 272, 274, 32
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Didi-Huberman, Georges 7, 309-321,
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Grosz, George 57, 165, 335 Grusin,
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Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert) 435
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Nil'sen, Vladimir 481 Nirnsee, Erns
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Salis, Rodolphe 274 Salome 69 Salt,
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Vatsyayan, Kapila 516 Veiller, Baya
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Contributors The Editors NaumKleima
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and Television, Comparative Critica
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uted seminal papers on film aesthet
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