Movement, Action, Image, Montage

A major new study of Sergei Eisenstein delivers fresh, in-depth analyses of the iconic filmmakers body of work What can we still learn from Sergei Eisenstein? Long valorized as the essential filmmaker of the Russian Revolution and celebrated for his indispensable contributions to cinematic technique, Eisensteins relevance to contemporary culture is far from exhausted. In Movement, Action, Image, Montage, Luka Arsenjuk considers the auteur as a filmmaker and a theorist, drawing on philosophers such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Gilles Deleuzeas well as Eisensteins own untranslated textsto reframe the way we think about the great director and his legacy. Focusing on Eisensteins unique treatment of the foundational concepts of cinemamovement, action, image, and montageArsenjuk invests each aspect of the auteurs art with new significance for the twenty-first century. Eisensteins work and thought, he argues, belong as much to the future as the past, and both can offer novel contributions to long-standing cinematic questions and debates. Movement, Action, Image, Montage brings new elements of Eisensteins output into academic consideration, by means ranging from sustained and comprehensive theorization of Eisensteins practice as a graphic artist to purposeful engagement with his recently published, unfinished book Method, still unavailable in English translation. This tour de force offers new and significant insights on Eisensteins oeuvrethe films, the art, and the theoryand is a landmark work on an essential filmmaker.