John Mackay

Dziga Vertov

Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896-1921)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For 60 years, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, creator of the famed Man with a Movie Camera (1929), has been recognized as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and political-propaganda film. This book addresses Vertov's formative years in prerevolutionary and Soviet Russia, alongside his interests in music, poetry and technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781644690116
• ISBN-10: 164469011X
• Artikelnr.: 57026489

Autorenporträt

John MacKay is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale in 1998 and a BA in English from the University of British Columbia in 1987.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Abbreviations, Transliteration, and Translations Introduction. How Did It Begin? Chapter 1. Province of Universality: David Kaufman before the War (1896
1914) Chapter 2. Social Immortality: David Kaufman at the Psychoneurological Institute (1914
16) Chapter 3. The Beating Pulse of Living Life: Musical, Futurist, Nonfiction, and Marxist Matrices (1916
18) Chapter 4. Christ among the Herdsmen: From Refugee to Propagandist (1918
22) Acknowledgments Film Archives Consulted Filmography Bibliography Index