Reading Eisenstein Reading "Capital" (Part 2)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annette Michelson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Pages | 82 |
| Publication date | 1977-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/778438 |
| OpenAlex | W2328288941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Eisenstein's double dedication of the projected film of Capital' at the end of the silent era of film, epitomizes a crisis of representation. Although we do not know and cannot even speculate as to the precision of his cinematic plans for Joyce, one thing is plain and certain: Ulysses, read in 1928 with the help of Madame Ivy Litvinov, offered him the deepest and most enduring challenge he had encountered since Meyerhold. Joyce's dissolution and relocation of narrative space, his explosion and regeneration of its language, continued, as we shall see, to inflect Eisenstein's thinking well into the middle 1930s. This challenge was not, however, entirely without precedent. Obscurely and in a different register anticipated, it had met with Eisenstein's resistance. It is therefore instructive, before turning to the question of the Joycean challenge, to consider in some detail an exchange, begun in 1925, between Eisenstein and Malevich. Most important is the manner in which this encounter articulates a series of misunderstandings. Their's was, in fact, un dialogue de sourds. It was Malevich who began this exchange, publishing, in 1925 and 1926, two strongly polemical essays: And Images Triumph on the Screen and Artists and the Cinema. 2 The dates of these texts are interesting. In them, the films of Eisenstein and of Vertov are discussed as seminal and problematic-and this at a time undoubtedly following the release of Strike, and possibly of Potemkin. Vertov, at this time, had produced, apart from the early Kino Nodelia and Kino
Art · Capital (architecture · Linguistics · Literature · Reading (process · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |