Savage junctures

the long version

"Anne Nesbet's aim in Savage Junctures is to return some of the shock to our perception of Sergei Eisenstein's films and writings. Based on extensive research in the Eisenstein archives, this book explores Eisenstein's omnivorous consumption of high and low culture and his wide-ranging experiments in 'thinking in pictures'. Savage Junctures pays close attention to the multiple contexts within which Eisenstein's films evolved. Eisenstein was particularly interested in the possibilities of visual thinking and, in this spirit, each chapter addresses the question of his image-based philosophy from a different perspective. Each also offers a fundamentally new interpretation on the films and writings that make up his oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.