Sergei Eisenstein in the Classical Tradition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-76181-9 (ISBN)
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This is the first study of Sergei Eisenstein's relationship to classical antiquity. Eisenstein regarded the cinema as a Gesamtkunstwerk and considered the ancient Greeks among its ancestors. He detected what he called “cinematism” in Homer, the Laocoon sculpture group, the Acropolis, and elsewhere. The book interprets Eisenstein's chief concept, montage, as a visual analogy to clever juxtapositions in Roman poetry and examines his conflicts with Stalin and the Communist Party over Bezhin Meadow and Ivan the Terrible alongside the classical rhetorical strategy of formidable speaking in the face of absolute power and the Russian practice of Aesopian language. Eisenstein also influenced the design of the New Acropolis Museum via an essay about the Acropolis' architectural promenade and his epic Alexander Nevsky. The cinematism of the Parthenon Frieze, American cinema architecture modeled on the Parthenon, and Eisenstein's image of the cinema as a temple reinforce his importance within the classical tradition.
Martin M. Winkler is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Classics at George Mason University in Virginia. He has written extensively on Roman literature, the classical tradition, and antiquity in the cinema. He has published well over a hundred articles, book chapters and reviews and written or edited sixteen books. The most recent, all published by Cambridge, are Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination (2024), Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions (2020), and Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination (2017).
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Prolegomena; 1. Cinema and classical antiquity according to Eisenstein; 2. Laocoon: from Lessing to Eisenstein; 3. Montage as callida iunctura; 4. Eisenstein's lion: cultural and cinematic contexts; 5. Word power before absolute power; 6. Acropolis and Parthenon: architecture, Eisenstein, cinema; Epilegomena; Bibliography: 1. Works by Eisenstein; 2. General; Chapter Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.9.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 30 Halftones, color; 40 Halftones, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-76181-1 / 1009761811 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-76181-9 / 9781009761819 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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