Sergei M. Eisenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema
Naum Kleiman and Antonio Somaini
The rediscovered notes in which the director of Battleship Potemkin traced cinema back through the older art forms that produced it. Accompanied by critical essays on montage and his theory of the image.
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