Montage Eisenstein

London/Bloomington: BFI Publishing / Indiana University Press. Near Fine. (c.1987). 1st English Edition (softcover issue). Softcover. [nice clean copy, virtually as-new with no significant wear]. (Theories of Representation and Difference) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Blurbed as "one of the most important studies of Eisenstein to have appeared in any language," this volume (first published in French in 1979) draws on "the recent discovery and publication (in Russian) of thousands of pages of his theoretical writings [which] have led to the realization that he was also one of the most prolific and one of the most consistent theoreticians of cinema." The author "interrogates the writings and films for an understanding of the aesthetic, social, and psychological assumptions underlying the concept and practice of montage." .