Access Today Sergei M. Eisensteins Potemkin: A Shot-by-Shot Presentation Written And Illustrated By David Mayer In Text

M. Eisenstein's Potemkin, a vivid account of the mutiny of Russian sailors on a Czarist battleship in, is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest films of all time.
Until now, however, Potemkin's astonishing vividness and artistry has never been translated satisfactorily into print, David Mayer's precise, shotbyshot recreation of Potemkin, the product of five years' work, is unquestionably definitive, For the student, it is a complete and faithful guide to the film, For the noninitiate, it can be read as a novela magnificent story of revolution and repression, With nearly three hundred illustrations, it can be used as a screenplay by film lovers, Mayer's concise introduction analyzes Eisenstein's innovative montage concepts and illustrates them with sequences of frames from the film, Now, with descriptions of each of the more thanshot that make up the authoritative Museum of Modern Art version, even the smallest particulars of Eisenstein's directorial genius can be discovered and studied without losing Potemkin's narrative and visual flow.


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