Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov
Editorial Reviews
J. Hoberman, The New Republic
"To recognize [Vertov's] centrality is to open oneself to the possibility that the most passionate and inventive movies of the past eight decades may not have been the narrative features at all, but rather the documentaries and the experimental films, the seven-minute animations and the four-minute rock videos. . . . Vertov's case, as the distinguished film scholar and theorist Annette Michelson suggests in her lengthy and brilliantly argued introduction to this collection of the filmmaker's manifestos, journal excerpts, and production notes, is a special one."
Book Description
Dziga Vertov was one of the greatest innovators of Soviet cinema. The radical complexity of his workin both sound and silent formshas given it a central place within contemporary theoretical inquiry. Vertov's writings, collected here, range from calculated manifestos setting forth his heroic vision of film's potential to dark ruminations on the inactivity forced upon him by the bureaucratization of the Soviet state.
Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov
Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov,Dziga Vertov,Annette Michelson,University of California Press,0520056302,Cinema/Film: Book,Documentary films,Film & Video - Direction & Production,Film Theory,History,Motion pictures, Documentary,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Sources,Soviet Union
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