The Film Sense
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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At the intersection of art, science, and revolutionary thought, The Film Sense stands as one of the most profound and original contributions to cinema theory ever written. Legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein — the visionary behind Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible — presents a rigorous and passionate argument for film as a fully realized art form, dissecting the mechanics of montage, image, and sound to illuminate how cinema achieves its extraordinary emotional and intellectual power. Drawing on examples from music, literature, painting, and Japanese poetry, Eisenstein constructs a sweeping aesthetic framework that positions the film director as both artist and architect of human perception. Written with the intellectual ferocity of a man who had reinvented an entire medium, The Film Sense argues that the collision of images on screen generates meaning that transcends the individual frame — a theory that would go on to influence generations of filmmakers, critics, and theorists worldwide. Eisenstein's prose is dense yet electrifying, blending Marxist dialectics with a near-mystical reverence for the sensory experience of cinema. A cornerstone text for anyone serious about understanding how and why film moves us, it leaves the reader with one unavoidable question: if this is what the eye sees, what exactly does the mind feel?
Author: Sergei Eisenstein
Format: Paperback
Genre: Movies & entertainment
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the intersection of art, science, and revolutionary thought, The Film Sense stands as one of the most profound and original contributions to cinema theory ever written. Legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein — the visionary behind Battleship Potemkin and Ivan the Terrible — presents a rigorous and passionate argument for film as a fully realized art form, dissecting the mechanics of montage, image, and sound to illuminate how cinema achieves its extraordinary emotional and intellectual power. Drawing on examples from music, literature, painting, and Japanese poetry, Eisenstein constructs a sweeping aesthetic framework that positions the film director as both artist and architect of human perception. Written with the intellectual ferocity of a man who had reinvented an entire medium, The Film Sense argues that the collision of images on screen generates meaning that transcends the individual frame — a theory that would go on to influence generations of filmmakers, critics, and theorists worldwide. Eisenstein's prose is dense yet electrifying, blending Marxist dialectics with a near-mystical reverence for the sensory experience of cinema. A cornerstone text for anyone serious about understanding how and why film moves us, it leaves the reader with one unavoidable question: if this is what the eye sees, what exactly does the mind feel?