An Imaginary Cinema Sergei Eisenstein And The Unrealized Film 1st Edition Dustin Condren by Dustin Condren 9781501778469, 9781501778490, 9781501778483, 1501778463, 1501778498, 150177848X instant download after payment.

Working from the archival remnants of several of the director's most fascinating unrealized projects—from his bold vision to film Marx's Das Kapital to his time in Hollywood struggling to adapt Dreiser's An American Tragedy—Dustin Condren's book reveals new aspects of Eisenstein's genius, showing the filmmaker in a constant state of process, open to working toward impossible and sometimes utopian ends, and committed to the pursuit of creative and theoretical discovery. Condren's analysis of these unrealized projects in An Imaginary Cinema reveals Eisenstein at crucial moments of his personal and artistic biography, and it also tells the wider story of a canonical artist negotiating the political labyrinths of Stalinist Russia, the economic pitfalls of Hollywood, and the technological shifts of early cinema.

Introduction

Toward an Imaginary Cinema

Ideal / Materia

Glass House

Capital

. Objective / Subjective

. Sutter's Gold

. An American Tragedy

Sequence / Simultaneity

MMM

Moscow

Conclusion

Dustin Condren is Assistant Professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. He has translated two books by Eisenstein into English: The Primal Phenomenon and Disney.