Product Description: I.B.Tauris is delighted to announce the reissue in paperback in three volumes of the definitive, most comprehensive edition, in the finest translations and fully annotated, of the writings of this great filmmaker, theorist and teacher of film -- and one of the most original aesthetic thinkers of the twentieth century:Volume 1 Writings 1922-34Volume 2 Towards a Theory of MontageVolume 3 Writings 1934-47...read more

Product Description: Sergei Eisenstein is arguably the most important single figure in the history of movies. He was certainly the most versatile. The director of the masterpieces Battleship Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein also wrote ground-breaking essays on film art and taught classes on motion picture production...read more

Product Description: This book presents, in a concise form, a selection of Sergei Eisenstein's significant writings. The texts, drawn from the BFI's "Selected Works of Eisenstein", address subjects including sound, film language, and his theories of "montage"...read more

Product Description: Sergei Eisenstein, the legendary Soviet director, was a key figure in world cinema history yet he completed only seven films. His unique contribution lies in his constant attempt to combine theory and practice. Drawing on the BFI's widely acclaimed four-volume edition of Eisenstein's writings, this reader presents the most important shorter film-related texts in annotated translations for the student and general reader...read more

Product Description: This is the first ever complete edition in English of Eisenstein's memoirs, superbly translated from the newly established definitive Russian text by William Powell and annotated by Richard Taylor, the worlds leading authority on Soviet Cinema.

Product Description: The Russian film-maker Sergei Eisenstein intended to present the history of the notorious Ivan IV of Russia in three parts, but he had difficulty reconciling his own vision of the film with the sensitive political requirements of the Russian Ministry of Cinematography...read more

The pioneering Russian film director whose productions have included 'Potemkin' and 'Ivan the Terrible' recounts the story of his life

Twelve essays by one of the most influential contributors to modern film theory and practice deal with central aspects of his film aesthetics and of his analysis of the sound-film medium (view table of contents)