Дикенс, Грифит и Айзенщайн – генеалогия и идеология на филмовия монтаж
Dickens, Griffith And Eisenstein – Genealogy And Ideology Of Film Montage

Author(s): Ognyan Kovachev
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Национална академия за театрално и филмово изкуство „Кр. Сарафов“
Keywords: film montage; film adaptation; narrative; socialist realism; American cinema; Soviet cinema
Summary/Abstract: I begin by examining the circumstances under which Sergei Eisenstein’s “Dickens, Griffith and Us” was written and published. Next, I highlight the varied reception of his hypothesis on the relationship between Griffith’s cinematic narrative and Dickens’s literary narration in film adaptation studies. I also point out the ideological bias and manipulations in his criticism of Griffith and the American film school. Finally, I underscore the tragic irony in Eisenstein’s quest to combine the principles of avant-garde montage cinema with the idols of socialist realism in his writing and in his film “Ivan the Terrible”.

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