I.B.Tauris is delighted to announce the reissue in paperback in three
volumes of the definitive, most comprehensive edition, in the finest
translations and fully annotated, of the writings of this great
filmmaker, theorist and teacher of film - and one of the most original
aesthetic thinkers of the twentieth century. Now in paperback for the
first time, Volume 1 documents from the definitive Russian texts the
complex course of Sergei Eisenstein's writings during the revolutionary
years in the Soviet Union. It presents Eisenstein the innovative
aesthetic thinker, socialist artist and humourist, passionately engaged
in the debates over the art forms of the future. Importantly, this was
also the period of Eisenstein's great silent masterpieces, 'The Strike',
'The Battleship Potemkin', 'October' and 'The General Line', and of his
controversial sojourns in Hollywood and Mexico.