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Brings together the important essays from the Vsevolod Pudovkin's two key books, "Film Technique" and "Film Acting". These essays highlight the development of his revolutionary thinking on scripts, directing, time, sound, and acting. His films - "The Mother", "The End of St Petersburg" and "Storm Over Asia" - are classics of silent cinema.
List of contents
PROVISIONAL CONTENTS* Richard Taylor: Introduction: Pudovkin Revisited * Our Working Methods in 'The Death Ray' [1924]* Photogeny [1925]* Montage [1925]* The Montage of a Scientific Film [1925]* 'The Mechanics of the Human Brain' [1926]* On 'The Battleship Potemkin' [1926]* The Mother. A Conversation with the Director, Pudovkin [1926]* The Mother. A Conversation with the Director, Vsevolod Pudovkin [1926]* The New Film. From a Conversation with the Director, Pudovkin [1926]* The Film Script (The Theory of the Script) [1926]* The Film Director and Film Material [1926]* 'Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad.' A Conversation with Vsevolod Pudovkin [1927]* 'The End of St Petersburg.' A Conversation [1927]* How We Made 'The End of St Petersburg' [1927/8]* S. M. Eisenstein (From 'Potemkin' to October) [1928]* Statement on Sound [1928] * 'The Descendant of Genghis-Khan.' A Conversation with the Director, Vsevolod Pudovkin [1928]* 'The Descendant of Genghis-Khan.' From a Conversation with the Director, Vsevolod Pudovkin [1928]* How I Work with Tolstoy [1928]* On Montage Rhythm [1928/9] * The 'Naturshchik' instead of the Actor [1929] * On the Principle of Sound in Film [1929] * Conversation on Sound Film [1929] * Our Picture [1929]* On the Language of the Script. A Conversation [1929]* Time in Close-Up [1931] * Sound and Image [1932]* The Role of Sound Cinema [1933] * Asynchronism as a Principle of Sound Film [1934] * The Problem of Rhythm in My First Sound Film [1934]* The Actor in Film [1933/4]
Summary
Brings together the important essays from the Vsevolod Pudovkin's two key books, "Film Technique" and "Film Acting". These essays highlight the development of his revolutionary thinking on scripts, directing, time, sound, and acting. His films - "The Mother", "The End of St Petersburg" and "Storm Over Asia" - are classics of silent cinema.