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THE MEN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde

THE MEN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s Hardcover - 2013

by CAVENDISH Philip

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Berghahn Books, 2013. 9781782380771. 1st edn. 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. xii + 342, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).
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  • Title THE MEN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA The Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s
  • Author CAVENDISH Philip
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 362
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berghahn Books, 2013. 9781782380771
  • Date 2013-12-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 177246
  • ISBN 9781782380771 / 1782380779
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Film
  • Library of Congress subjects Silent films - Soviet Union - History and, Cinematography - Soviet Union - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013020135
  • Dewey Decimal Code 777

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Unlike previous studies of the Soviet avant-garde during the silent era, which have regarded the works of the period as manifestations of directorial vision, this study emphasizes the collaborative principle at the heart of avant-garde filmmaking units and draws attention to the crucial role of camera operators in creating the visual style of the films, especially on the poetics of composition and lighting. In the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s, owing to the fetishization of the camera as an embodiment of modern technology, the cameraman was an iconic figure whose creative contribution was encouraged and respected. Drawing upon the film literature of the period, Philip Cavendish describes the culture of the camera operator, charts developments in the art of camera operation, and studies the mechanics of key director-cameraman partnerships. He offers detailed analysis of Soviet avant-garde films and draws comparisons between the visual aesthetics of these works and the modernist experiments taking place in the other spheres of the visual arts.

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  • Choice, 08/01/2014, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 01/24/2014, Page 17