Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking (KINO - The Russian Cinema)
Anne NesbetSavage Junctures provides fresh insights into Eisenstein's films and writings. It examines the multiple contexts within which his films evolved and Eisenstein's appropriation of world cultures as his sources. Nesbet focuses on the possibilities of visual image making and each chapter addresses the problem of his image-based thinking from a different perspective.
Eisenstein delighted in unlikely juxtapositions, being apt to cite from Stalin and Disney in one breath. Based on extensive research in the Eisenstein archives, this work is an exploration of Eisenstein's omnivorous consumption of high and low culture.
Each chapter also offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the films and writings that make up his oeuvre. This is a major new contribution to studies in Soviet cinema and culture and to the field of film studies.