Sergei Eisenstein
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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн; 22 January 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.
Writings
- The Film Sense, trans. Jay Leyda, New York: Hartcourt, 1942. (English)
- Notes of a Film Director, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1959. (English)
- Ausgewählte Aufsätze, intro. R. Jurenew, trans. Lothar Fahlbusch, Berlin: Henschel, 1960. (German)
- Schriften, 4 vols., Munich: Hanser, 1974–84. (German)
- Film Form: Essays in Film Theory by Sergei Eisenstein, trans. Jay Leyda, New York: Hartcourt, 1977, EPUB. (English)
- 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)
- Yo. Ich selbst. Memoiren. 2 vols., Berlin: Henschel, 1984; 1988. (German)
- Selected Works. Volume I: Writings, 1922-34, ed. & trans. Richard Taylor, British Film Institute, London, 1988, 343 pp. (English)
- Ivan the Terrible, Faber, 1989. (English)
- Problems of Film Direction, University Press of the Pacific, 2004. (English)
- Eisenstein's books in Russian
Literature
- Marie Seton, Sergei M. Eisenstein: A Biography, Grove Press, 1960. (in English)
- Lars Kleberg, Håkan Lövgren (eds.), Eisenstein Revisited: A Collection of Essays, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1987, 145 pp. (in English) [1]
- Håkan Lövgren, Eisenstein's Labyrinth: Aspects of a Cinematic Synthesis of the Arts, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996, 139 pp. (in English) [2] [3]
- Anne Nesbet, Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking, I.B. Tauris, 2003. (in English)
- Mike O'Mahony, Sergei Eisenstein, Reaktion Books, 2008. (in English)
- Robert Robertson, Eisenstein on the Audiovisual: The Montage of Music, Image and Sound in Cinema I.B. Tauris, 2009, 304 pp. (in English)
- Masha Salazkina, In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico, 2009. (in English)
