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The men with the movie camera : the poetics of visual style in Soviet avant-garde cinema of the 1920s / Philip Cavendish.
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Cavendish, Philip
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Description
xii, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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TR848 .C38 2013
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Subject(s)
Cinematography
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Soviet Union
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History
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Experimental films
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Soviet Union
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History and criticism
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Silent films
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Soviet Union
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History and criticism
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Summary note
"Unlike previous studies of the Soviet avant-garde during the silent era, which have regarded the works of the period as manifestations of directorial vision, this study emphasizes the collaborative principle at the heart of avant-garde filmmaking units and draws attention to the crucial role of camera operators in creating the visual style of the films and their responsibility for the poetics of composition and lighting. In the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s, owing to the fetishization of the camera as an embodiment of modern technology, the cameraman was an iconic figure whose creative contribution was encouraged and respected. Drawing upon the film literature of the period, Philip Cavendish describes the culture of the camera operator, charts developments in the art of camera operation and studies the mechanics of key director-cameraman partnerships. He offers detailed analysis of Soviet avant-garde films and draws comparisons between the visual aesthetics of these works and the modernist experiments taking place in the other spheres of the visual arts."--Back cover.
Notes
Includes filmography.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-324) and index.
Contents
Introduction
The theory and practice of camera operation within the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s
Eduard Tisse and Sergei Eisenstein
Anatolii Golovnia and Vsevolod Pudovkin
Andrei Moskvin and the Factory of the Eccentric Actor
Danylo Demutskyi and Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Conclusion.
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ISBN
9781782380771 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
1782380779 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
1782380787
9781782380788
LCCN
2013020135
OCLC
841893015
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40023286205
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