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Overview"Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinema verite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Godard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece, 'Man with a Movie Camera'. Recently, however Vertov has begun to be recognised as the creator of a body of innovative and distinct films and, as Jeremy Hicks argues, documentary as we know it today is unthinkable without the rediscovery of Vertov. This, the first book in English to cover the whole of Vertov's career, reveals him to be an auteur, allowing readers to combine the familiar and less familiar aspects of his filmmaking and thinking in a cohesive narrative. Jeremy Hicks demonstrates how Vertov draws on Soviet journalistic models for his transformation of newsreel into the new form of documentary film. Through analyses of ""Cine-Pravda No 21"" (Leninist Cine-Pravda), ""Cine-Eye"", ""Forward Soviet!"", ""A Sixth Part of the Earth"", ""The Eleventh Year"", ""Man with a Movie Camera"", ""Enthusiasm"", ""Three Songs of Lenin"", and ""Lullaby"", he shows how Vertov's greatest works combine authentic documentary footage ingeniously for tremendous rhetorical effect. Today, with the energetic revival of interest in documentary film, Vertov's reflexive and overtly partisan films are of great relevance; but they need to be better known and understood. This is the purpose of ""Dziga Vertov - Defining Documentary Film""." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeremy HicksPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: I.B. Tauris Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9781845113773ISBN 10: 1845113772 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 30 March 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<p>''…the first English-language monograph devoted entirely to the career of Russia’s greatest documentary filmmaker…a valuable contribution to English-language scholarship on early Soviet cinema and an important resource to all those of us who teach the history of Russian or documentary cinema…’’ Anthony Anemone, Slavic and East European Journal Author InformationLecturer in Russian at Queen Mary, University of London. His publications include 'Mikhail Zoshchenko and the Poetics of Skaz', a translation of Zoshchenko's short stories, and articles about Russian film. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |