Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking

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"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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""Nesbit has done an admirable, thorough job of research.""--Slavic and East European Journal, Winter 2005

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Anne Nesbet is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Program in Film at the University of California, Berkeley.