On the Wings of Hypothesis
Collected Writings on Soviet Cinema
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2021
Summary
Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.
This posthumous volume gathers Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, giving readers the opportunity to track her sustained investigations into their work. Michelson introduced American audiences to Soviet cinema in the early 1970s, extending the interpretive paradi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262044493 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262044498 |
| Author: | Annette Michelson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 752g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
| Series: | October Bks. |
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About The Author
Annette Michelson
Annette Michelson (1922-2018) was widely considered one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers on film. During her more than five-decade career, she was an art editor and critic for the New York Herald Tribune, a writer for Artforum, a founding editor of the journal October, and Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Some of Michelson’s essays on film were collected in On the Eve of the Future- Selected Writings on Film (MIT Press).
Rachel Churner is an art critic and editor. She teaches at the New School, New York, and is a cofounder of no place press. From 2011 to 2014, she owned and operated the New York gallery Churner and Churner.
Malcolm Turvey is Professor of Film History at Sarah Lawrence College and an editor of October. He is the author of Doubting Vision- Film and the Revelationist Tradition.
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