The Men with the Movie Camera : : The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s / / Philip Cavendish.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Cavendish, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Note on Transliteration and Conventions --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE The Theory and Practice of Camera Operation within the Soviet Avant-Garde of the 1920s --; CHAPTER TWO Eduard Tisse and Sergei Eizenshtein --; CHAPTER THREE Anatolii Golovnia and Vsevolod Pudovkin --; CHAPTER FOUR Andrei Moskvin and the Factory of the Eccentric Actor --; CHAPTER FIVE Danylo Demuts'kyi and Oleksandr Dovzhenko --; CONCLUSION The End of the Golden Age --; Filmography --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782380788; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782380788
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Philip Cavendish.

Unlike previous studies of the Soviet avant-garde during the silent era, which have regarded the works of the period as manifestations of directorial vision, this study emphasizes the collaborative principle at the heart of avant-garde filmmaking units and draws attention to the crucial role of camera operators in creating the visual style of the films, especially on the poetics of composition and lighting. In the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s, owing to the fetishization of the camera as an embodiment of modern technology, the cameraman was an iconic figure whose creative contribution was encouraged and respected. Drawing upon the film literature of the period, Philip Cavendish describes the culture of the camera operator, charts developments in the art of camera operation, and studies the mechanics of key director-cameraman partnerships. He offers detailed analysis of Soviet avant-garde films and draws comparisons between the visual aesthetics of these works and the modernist experiments taking place in the other spheres of the visual arts.