Constructivism in Film - A Cinematic Analysis The Man with the Movie Camera [Paperback]

This book examines the radical experiments of early Soviet filmmakers, with a detailed analysis of The Man with the Movie Camera (1929).This book examines the radical experiments of early Soviet filmmakers, with special emphasis on the relationship of Constructivist film to contemporary literature, painting, architecture, and design. Surveying the socio-political aspects of the Constructivist movement as well, Vlada Petri then analyzes in detail the most important silent film produced during this era, Dziga Vertovs The Man with the Movie Camera (1929).This book examines the radical experiments of early Soviet filmmakers, with special emphasis on the relationship of Constructivist film to contemporary literature, painting, architecture, and design. Surveying the socio-political aspects of the Constructivist movement as well, Vlada Petri then analyzes in detail the most important silent film produced during this era, Dziga Vertovs The Man with the Movie Camera (1929).Constructivism in Film examines the radical experiments of early Soviet filmmakers, with special emphasis on the relationship of Constructivist film to contemporary literature, painting, architecture and design. Surveying the socio-political aspects of the Constructivist movement as well, Vlada Petri then analyzes in detail the most important silent film produced during this era, Dziga Vertov's The Man with the Movie Camera (1929). This updated edition contains a new chapter about the descriptive score of the film.Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. Dziga Vertov and the Soviet avant-garde movement; 2. Thematic meaning of The Man with the Movie Camera; 3. Formal structure of The Man with the Movie Camera; 4. Descriptive score for The Man with the Movie Camera; Appendices; Notes; Frame enlargements; Plates; Index.Review of the hardback: 'The publication of Vlada Petri's Constructivism in Film & is a long-awaited and important moment in film criticism & after decades in which Vertov's concepts of cinema havel³*