Ebook: The film form: essays in film

Through theater to cinema -- The unexpected -- The cinematographic principle and the ideogram -- A dialectic approach to film form -- The filmic fourth dimension -- Methods of montage -- A course in treatment -- Film language -- Film form : New problems -- The structure of the film -- Achievement -- Dickens, Griffith, and the film today -- A statement on the sound-film by Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Alexandrov -- Notes from a director's laboratory.;"Film form draws together twelve essays written between 1928 and 1945 that demonstrate key points in the development of Eisenstein's film theory and in particular his analysis of the sound-film medium...".--Page 4 de la couverture.