Constructivism in Film - A Cinematic Analysis
The Man with the Movie Camera

This book examines the radical experiments of early Soviet filmmakers, with a detailed analysis of The Man with the Movie Camera (1929).

Vlada Petri? (Author)

9780521137881, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 2 June 2011

356 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.52 kg

Review of the hardback: 'In this remarkable book, Vlada Petri? explicates the cinematic text of one of the most famous works of avant-garde nonfiction film, Dziga Vertov's The Man with the Movie Camera … it is difficult to imagine a better or more complete formal analysis of a single movie, or a book that teaches us more about the 'cinematic way of seeing', than Constructivism in Film'. The Russian Review

Constructivism in Film examines the radical experiments of early Soviet filmmakers, with special emphasis on the relationship of Constructivist film to contemporary literature, painting, architecture and design. Surveying the socio-political aspects of the Constructivist movement as well, Vlada Petri? then analyzes in detail the most important silent film produced during this era, Dziga Vertov's The Man with the Movie Camera (1929). This updated edition contains a new chapter about the descriptive score of the film.

Preface
Acknowledgement
1. Dziga Vertov and the Soviet avant-garde movement
2. Thematic meaning of The Man with the Movie Camera
3. Formal structure of The Man with the Movie Camera
4. Descriptive score for The Man with the Movie Camera
Appendices
Notes
Frame enlargements
Plates
Index.

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