Just to nail down the Eisenstein reference, one of his most influential
essays was "A Dialectical Approach to Film Form", which appears in the
collection of Eisenstein's essays entitled "Film Form" and put together by
Jay Leyda for Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich in 1949
After beginning with quotes from Goethe and Eckerman, Eisenstein wrote
"The projection of the dialectic system of things into the brain into
creating abstractly, into the process of thinking yields dialectic
materialism-- PHILOSOPHY
and also...
The projection of the same system of things
while creating concretely, while giving form, yields a dynamic conception of
ART"
He proceeded to elaborate on his approach to intellectual montage
The essay was written around 1930
Dan Shaw
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