The montage principle : : Eisenstein in new cultural and critical contexts / / edited by Jean Antoine-Dunne with Paula Quigley.

• TeilnehmendeR: Antoine-Dunne, Jean,; Quigley, Paula,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 220 pages)

This book of essays is quite unique in that it intervenes in a still contested area within many universities, that of the relevance of film to literature, critical theory, politics, sociology and anthropology. The essays were commissioned by Jean Antoine-Dunne whose research has explored the impact of Eisenstein’s aesthetics on different areas of modernist literature and drama. The essays in this collection use Eisenstein as a point of departure into divergent fields of analysis and are concerned with the principle of montage as a transforming idea. They gather within the pages of one work contributions from Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Richard Taylor, Paul Willemen and emerging scholars entering and altering the field of interdisciplinary scholarship, film and literature. These hitherto unpublished essays not only extend and elaborate on previous treatments of Eisenstein and montage in areas such as semiotics, film theory, and feminist film practice, but also introduce his work to areas which have not yet been considered in relation to Eisenstein and montage, such as Beckett scholarship, Caribbean aesthetics, Third Cinema, and debates around digital imagery. No other collection of essays has explored the idea of montage as a structuring cultural and critical principle and the elasticity of Eisenstein's legacy in quite this way.

Table of Contents

Introducing Eisenstein’s Theory / Jean Antoine-Dunne -- General Introduction / Jean Antoine-Dunne and Paula Quigley -- Sergei Eisenstein: The Life and Times of A Boy from Riga / Richard Taylor -- Eisenstein’s Regenerative Aesthetics: From Montage to Mimesis / Arthur McCullough -- The Politics of Sound and Image: Eisenstein, Artifice and Acoustic Montage in Contemporary Feminist Cinema / Debbie Ging -- Healing the Rupture: The Influence of Eisenstein on the work of Ritwik Ghatak / Anne Sheridan -- Time and Space in Their Indissoluble Connection: Towards an Audio-Visual Caribbean Aesthetic / Jean Antoine-Dunne -- Eisenstein, Montage, and ‘filmic writing’ / Paula Quigley -- Reflections on Eisenstein and Digital Imagery: Of Mice and Men / Paul Willemen -- Beckett, Eisenstein and the Image: Making an Inside an Outside / Jean Antoine-Dunne.