Sergei Eisenstein

Boris Pasternak, Sergei Eisenstein, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilya Brik, 1924.
Born	January 22, 1898(1898-01-22) Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died	February 11, 1948(1948-02-11) (aged 50) Moscow, Soviet Union
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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн; 1898–1948) was a film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

The Film Sense, 1942/1957, PDF.

Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, 1944/1977, PDF, EPUB.

Selected Works, 1: Writings, 1922-34, 1988, Log, PDF.

Nonindifferent Nature, 1987, Log.

Notes for a General History of Cinema [1946-47], 2016, Log, PDF.

Writings

• The Film Sense, ed. & trans. Jay Leyda, New York: Hartcourt, 1942; New York: Meridian, 1957, 282 pp. (English)
  • El sentido del cine, trans. Norah Lacoste, 1958; 2nd ed., Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 1974. (Spanish)
  • O sentido do filme, trans. Teresa Ottoni, notes Jose Carlos Avelar, Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 1990; 2002, 159 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Ivan Grozny [Иван Грозный], Moscow: Goskinoizdat, 1944, 192 pp. (Russian)
  • Ivan the Terrible, Faber, 1989. (English)

• Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, ed. & trans. Jay Leyda, New York: Meridian, 1944; repr., New York: Hartcourt, 1977, 279 pp, EPUB. (English)
  • A forma do filme, trans. Teresa Ottoni, intro. & notes José Carlos Avellar, Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 1990; 2002, 235 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Kak ya stal rezhisserom [Как я стал режиссёром], Riga: Goskinoizdat, 1946, 340 pp; repr. in Izbrannye proizvedeniya, 5, 1968. (Russian)
• Que viva Mexico!, intro. Ernest Lindgren, London: Vision, 1951, 89 pp. (English)
• Izbrannye stati [Избранные статьи], Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1956, 456 pp. (Russian)
• Notes of a Film Director, ed. R. Yurenev, Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1959, ARG. (English)
• Динамический квадрат: Предложения в пользу новых пропорций экрана, выдвинутые в связи с вопросом о практической реализации «широкого» фильма // Вопросы киноискусства, Moscow: AN SSSR, 1960, 424 pp. (Russian)
• Ausgewählte Aufsätze, intro. R. Jurenew, trans. Lothar Fahlbusch, Berlin: Henschel, 1960. (German)
• Risunki / Dessins / Drawings, ed. L.A. Ilina, Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1961, 226 pp. (Russian)/(English)/(French)
• Izbrannye proizvedeniya [Избранные произведения], 6 vols., Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1964-1971. (Russian)
  • 1. Автобиографические записки разных лет, замыслы. Краткая летопись жизни и деятельности, фильмография, библиография, 1964, 696 pp.
  • 2. Работы 1923—1940 гг.: цикл работ о монтаже, программа преподавания режиссуры во Всесоюзном государственном институте кинематографии, выступление на творческом совещании 1935 года; статьи и заметки разных лет; «Заявка Эйзенштейна, Пудовкина, Александрова» (Будущее звуковой фильмы"), перевод доклада на английском языке, «Монтаж 1938» и др. исследования, 1964, 566 pp.
  • 3. Теоретические исследования 1945—1948 гг, 1964, 672 pp.
  • 4. «Искусство мизансцены», 1966, 790 pp.
  • 5. История и теория кино: «Проблема советского исторического фильма», «Диккенс, Гриффит и мы»; Критика и публицистика, 1968, 600 pp.
  • 6. Киносценарии, 1971, 560 pp.

• Film Essays and a Lecture, ed. Jay Leyda, forew. Grigori Kozintsev, Dobson Books, 1968; repr., New York: Praeger, 1970, 236 pp. (English)
• Schriften, 4 vols., Munich: Hanser, 1974-1984. (German)
• Über mich und meine Filme, ed. Lilli Kaufmann, trans. Christiane Mückenberger, Lothar Fahlbusch and Lilli Kaufmann, Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1975. (German)
• Eine nicht gleichmütige Natur, ed. Rosemarie Heise, trans. Regine Kühn, Berlin: Henschel, 1980. (German)
• Immoral Memories: An Autobiography, trans. Herbert Marshall, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. (English)
• Yo. Ich selbst. Memoiren, 2 vols., Berlin: Henschel, 1984; 1988. (German)
• Neravnodushnaya priroda [Неравнодушная природа], 2 vols., ed. N. Kleyman, Moscow: Ejzenshtejn-tsentr, 2004 & 2006, 687 & 624 pp. (Russian)
  • La non-indifférente nature, 2 vols., trans. Luda and Jean Schnitzer, preface Pascal Bonitzer (I) and François Albéra (II), Paris: Union générale d'éditions, 1975 & 1978, 444 & 377 pp. (French)
  • Nonindifferent Nature, trans. Herbert Marshall, Cambridge University Press, 1987, xxv+428 pp. (English)
• Das dynamische Quadrat. Schriften zum Film, eds. & trans. Oksana Bulgakowa and Dietmar Hochmuth, Leipzig: Reclam, 1988; 1991, 411 pp. [1] (German)
• Selected Works, 1: Writings, 1922-1934, ed. & trans. Richard Taylor, London: British Film Institute, 1988, 343 pp. (English)
• The Psychology of Composition, ed. & trans. Alan Upchurch, preface Jan Leyda, London: Methuen, 1988, 120 pp. (English)
• Beyond the Stars: The Memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein, trans. William Powell, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1995, xxi+889 pp. (English)
• Memuary, 1: Wie sag' ich's meinem Kinde? [Мемуары], ed., intro. & comm. N.I. Kleyman, Moscow: Trud, 1997, 432 pp. (Russian)
• Memuary, 2: Автобиография; Обезьянья логика; Истинные пути изобретания; Профили [Мемуары], Moscow: Trud, 1997, 544 pp. (Russian)
• The Eisenstein Reader, ed. Richard Taylor, trans. Richard Taylor and William Powell, London: British Film Institute, 1998, vii+211 pp. (English)
• Eisenstein und Deutschland. Texte, Dokumente, Briefe, ed. Oksana Bulgakowa, Berlin: Henschel, 1998, 240 pp. (German)
• Montazh [Монтаж: Монтаж аттракционов; За кадром; Четвёртое измерение в кино; Монтаж 1938; Вертикальный монтаж; Вкладыш], intro. R. Yurenev, Moscow: VGIK, 1998, 193 pp. (Russian)
• Montazh [Монтаж], Moscow: Ejzenshtejn-tsentr, 2000, 592 pp. (Russian)
• Metod [Метод], 2 vols., Moscow: Ejzenshtejn-tsentr, 2002, 495 & 688 pp. (Russian)
• Problems of Film Direction, University Press of the Pacific, 2004. (English)
• Metod [Метод], 4 vols., ed., trans. & comm. Oksana Bulgakowa, Berlin: PotemkinPress, 2009, 1660 pp. [2] (Russian),(German),(English),(French)
• Disney, eds. & trans. Oksana Bulgakowa & Dietmar Hochmuth, Berlin: PotemkinPress, 2012, 202 pp. [3] (German)
  • Disney, trans. Dustin Condren, Berlin: PotemkinPress, 2013, 180 pp. [4] (English)
• Notes for a General History of Cinema, eds. Naum Kleiman and Antonio Somaini, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016, 545 pp. (English)

More

• Eisenstein's texts in Russian

Literature

• Marie Seton, Sergei M. Eisenstein: A Biography, Grove Press, 1960. (English)
• Artforum 11(5): "Eisenstein/Brakhage", ed. Annette Michelson, New York: Artforum, Jan 1973, 95 pp. (English)
• Rosalind E. Krauss, "Montage October: Dialectic of the Shot", Artforum 11:5, Jan 1973, pp 61-66; repr., October 162, Fall 2017, pp 133-144. (English)
• Jay Leyda, Zina Voynow, Eisenstein at Work, intro. Ted Perry, Pantheon Books, and New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1982, 162 pp. (English)
• Lars Kleberg, Håkan Lövgren eds.), Eisenstein Revisited: A Collection of Essays, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1987, 145 pp. [5] (English)
• Oksana Bulgakowa, Sergej Eisenstein. Drei Utopien. Architekturentwürfe zur Filmtheorie, Berlin: PotemkinPress, 1996, 304 pp. [6] (German)
• Håkan Lövgren, Eisenstein's Labyrinth: Aspects of a Cinematic Synthesis of the Arts, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996, 139 pp. [7] [8] (English)
• Oksana Bulgakowa, Sergej Eisenstein. Eine Biographie, Berlin: PotemkinPress, 1997, 304 pp. [9] (German)
  • Sergei Eisenstein: A Biography, trans. Anne Dwyer, Berlin/San Francisco: PotemkinPress, 2001, xi+290 pp. [10] (English)
• Anne Nesbet, Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking, I.B. Tauris, 2003. (English)
• Mike O'Mahony, Sergei Eisenstein, Reaktion Books, 2008. (English)
• Felix Lenz, Sergej Eisenstein: Montagezeit. Rhythmus, Formdramaturgie, Pathos, Munich: Fink, 2008. (German)
• Robert Robertson, Eisenstein on the Audiovisual: The Montage of Music, Image and Sound in Cinema I.B. Tauris, 2009, 304 pp. (English)
• Masha Salazkina, In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico, 2009. (English)
• Steven Lee, The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution, Columbia University Press, 2015, 304 pp, EPUB. [11] (English)
• Elena Vogman, "Dance of Values: Reading Eisenstein's Capital", Grey Room 72, Summer 2018, pp 94-124. (English)
• Luka Arsenjuk, Movement, Action, Image, Montage: Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis, University of Minnesota Press, 2018, 280 pp. Review: Luers (Leonardo). (English)
• Zmiennokształtność: Eisenstein jako metoda / Shapeshifting: Eisenstein as a Method, ed. Aleksandra Jach, Lodz: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, 2018, 180 pp. Catalogue. [12] (Polish)/(English)

Links

• http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/great-directors/sergei-eisenstein/