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The Film Sense together with Film Form, by the internationally renowned Soviet director, are regarded as classic statements on the aesthetics of film - making. The Film Sense draws upon Eisenstein\’s experience in the creation of Strike, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, Old and New, and Alexander Nevsky to discuss films as a more expressive and profound medium that would appeal to all the senses, as well as the emotions and the intellect. The discussion ends with a fascinating analysis of audio - visual correspondences in a sequence from Alexander Nevsky.
the book also includes a complete listing of Eisenstein\’s pre - film and film work; an early theoretical essay; sequences from his scenarios for An American Tragedy, Que Viva Mexico!, Sutter\’s Gold, and Ferghana Canal; a bibliography of his writings; and all the diagrams and photographs of the original edition.
”The most instructive discussion of the film art yet put between the covers of a book.”
-Bosley Crowther, N.Y. Times Book Review
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, who was born in Riga in 1898, first achieved world fame with his silent film Potemkin in 1925. Although he completed only six films before his death in 1948, he is considered one of the most influential film - makers and film theoreticians of our time.
