Constructivism in Film - A Cinematic Analysis: The Man with the Movie CameraConstructivism in Film examines the radical experiments of early Soviet filmmakers, with special emphasis on the relationship of Constructivist film to contemporary literature, painting, architecture and design. Surveying the socio-political aspects of the Constructivist movement as well, Vlada Petrić then analyzes in detail the most important silent film produced during this era, Dziga Vertov's The Man with the Movie Camera (1929). This updated edition contains a new chapter about the descriptive score of the film. |
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Contents
Dziga Vertov and the Soviet avantgarde movement | 1 |
Thematic meaning of The Man with the Movie Camera | 70 |
Formal structure of The Man with the Movie Camera | 129 |
Descriptive Score for The Man with the Movie Camera | 201 |
Introductory statement of the film | 219 |
Annotated filmography of Vertovs work | 231 |
Common terms and phrases
accelerated achieved Articles artistic audience avant-garde blurred Cameraman close-up concept conflict constructivist creative critics depicting Diagonal position diegetic documentary film Dziga Vertov editing Eisenstein Elizaveta Svilova EYE STREET face in shadow factory Film Film-Eye Film-Truth film's filmmakers final first foreground function futurist Goskino graphic patterns HACU Hands hit objects horizontal ideological influence intercut intertitles Iskusstvo juxtaposed Kaufman kinesthetic Kino kinoks LACU Lenin lens life-facts looks left Mayakovsky meaning medium shots metaphor method Mikhail Kaufman Moscow motion movement Movie Camera movie theater moving musical newsreel objects with spoons official optical pedestrians perception photographed point of view Produced Radio-Eye reality reels reflected rotating screen segments sequence Sergo Ordzhonikidze shooting significance socialist realism Songs about Lenin sound specific spectators Svilova's eyes look thematic Three Songs tion tracking traffic traffic signal train tripod trolley vertical Vertov and Svilova viewer visual wheel workers young woman
Bibliographic information
| Title | Constructivism in Film - A Cinematic Analysis: The Man with the Movie Camera Cambridge studies in film |
| Author | Vlada Petrić |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2012 |
| ISBN | 0521137888, 9780521137881 |
| Length | 343 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Industries / Media & Communications Social Science / Media Studies |
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