Eisenstein delighted in unlikely juxtapositions, being apt to cite from Stalin and Disney in one breath. The heterogeneity underlying his work is breathtaking and his lack of decorum and refusal to be categorised tend to make critics uneasy but not Anne Nesbet. Based on extensive research in the Eisenstein archives, her book is an original, beautifully written exploration of Eisenstein's omnivorous consumption of high and low culture and his wide-ranging experiments in 'thinking in pictures'.
Savage Junctures provides fresh insights into Eisenstein's films and writings. It examines the multiple contexts within which his films evolved and Eisenstein's appropriation of all of world culture as his source. Like Eisenstein himself, Anne Nesbet is particularly interested in the possibilities of visual image making and each chapter addresses the problem of his image-based thinking from a different perspective. Each chapter also offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the films and writings that make up his oeuvre. This is a major new contribution to studies in Soviet cinema and culture and to the field of film studies.
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General Editor's Preface vi Preface and Acknowledgements viii A Note on Transliteration x Frequently Cited Sources xi Introduction 1 1. Beyond Recognition: Strike and the Eye of the Abattoir 21 2. Fourth-Dimensional Medusa: Battleship Potemkin and the Construction of the Soviet Cinema Audience 49 3. Picture-Thinking: October and the Debris of Philosophy 77 4. Excavating The General Line: The Pleasures and Perils of Accumulation 95 5. Savage Thinking: The Sublime Surfaces of Eisenstein's Mexico 117 6. The Skeleton Dance: Animation, Terror and the Musical Comedy 157 7. Beyond Pleasure: Ivan and the 'Juncture of Beginning and End' 185 Conclusion: The Shape of Thinking 209 Notes 215 Bibliography 249 Index 258
