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Jules Chametzky
On the Edge of Destruction: Jews
298
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The Life of the Automobile
302
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Neil Schmitz
The Dead Father;
306
Guilty Pleasures;
Great Days
by Donald Barthelme
LETTERS
310
Ludwig Greve
To Hannah Arendt
317
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Lessons With Eisenstein
Vladimir Nizhny
Translated and edited by
Ivor Montagu
and
Jay Leyda
New introduction by
Dwight Macdonald
" ... In
Lessons With Eisenstein,
we observe the master as he works out with his
pupils theoretical game plans to guide the shooting of four episodes in movies
never made by himself, or anybody else. As Nizhny's fascinating memoir, based
on notes he took in class, demonstrates in vivid detail, Eisenstein was as great a
teacher as he was a director. He was a most unacademic type, a Socratic dialec–
tician rather than a lecturer. ... "
- Dwight Macdonald.
from his introduction
"Every teacher or student of film would be well-advised to consult this in–
valuable account of Eisenstein's teaching methods, and his nuts and bolts dem–
onstrations of the art of directing."
- Andrew Sarris
This is the definitive record of Eisenstein's credo which asserted that "Cinema–
tography is, first and foremost, montage" and proclaimed "Away from realism
to reality." 198 pp.
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