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Informationen zum Autor Amy Sargeant teaches the London Program for Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is the author of British Cinema: A Critical History (BFI 2005) and co-editor of British Historical Cinema: History, Heritage and the Costume Film (2002). Klappentext Leon Moussinac! surveying the Soviet cinema scene in 1928! proclaimed Pudovkin! Eisenstein! and Vertov as its leading triumvirate. Yet there has been too little published on Pudovkin's significant work in Soviet cinema. Amy Sargeant's welcome book on Pudovkin assesses his career and his films! including the well-known features "The Mother" and "The End of St. Petersburg!" exploring their style and the circumstances surrounding their production. She also looks at the production and reception of his writings on film technique and performance! both inside the Soviet Union and in the West. This volume on Vsevolod Pudovkin explores the style and production circumstances of his films and their reception, as well as his writings and theories, all within the Soviet political context. Zusammenfassung This volume on Vsevolod Pudovkin explores the style and production circumstances of his films and their reception, as well as his writings and theories, all within the Soviet political context. Inhaltsverzeichnis The old regime and the new - from "Hammer and Sickle" to "Chess Fever"; Russian physiology and Pudovkin's "The Mechanics of the Brain (the Behaviour of Animals and Man)"; "The Mother" and the return of the actor; "The End of St. Petersburg"; "Storm over Asia"; "A Simple Case" and "The Deserter" - the sound film and sound film acting; the Einstein/Pudovkin controversy.
