The Men with the Movie Camera

The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-077-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

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, especially on 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cavendish, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration and Conventions

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Theory and Practice of Camera Operation within the Soviet Avant-garde of the 1920s

Chapter 2. Eduard Tisse and Sergei Eisenstein

Chapter 3. Anatolii Golovnia and Vsevolod Pudovkin

Chapter 4. Andrei Moskvin and the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS)

Chapter 5. Danylo Demuts'kyi and Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Conclusion

Illustrations

Filmography

Bibliography

Index of names and subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Cavendish, Philip
Philip Cavendish is Reader in Russian and Soviet Film Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He is the author of Mining for Jewels: Evgenii Zamiatin and the Literary Stylization of Rus' (MHRA, 2000), and Soviet Mainstream Cinematography: The Silent Era (UCL, 2007).

Philip Cavendish is Reader in Russian and Soviet Film Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He is the author of Mining for Jewels: Evgenii Zamiatin and the Literary Stylization of Rus' (MHRA, 2000), and Soviet Mainstream Cinematography: The Silent Era (UCL, 2007).