I.B.Tauris is delighted to announce the reissue in paperback in three volumes of the definitive, most comprehensive edition, in the finest translations and fully annotated, of the writings of this great filmmaker, theorist and teacher of film - and one of the most original aesthetic thinkers of the twentieth century. Now in paperback for the first time, Volume 1 documents from the definitive Russian texts the complex course of Sergei Eisenstein's writings during the revolutionary years in the Soviet Union. It presents Eisenstein the innovative aesthetic thinker, socialist artist and humourist, passionately engaged in the debates over the art forms of the future. Importantly, this was also the period of Eisenstein's great silent masterpieces, 'The Strike', 'The Battleship Potemkin', 'October' and 'The General Line', and of his controversial sojourns in Hollywood and Mexico.

Richard Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Russian Studies at Swansea University, Wales. His numerous books and articles on Russian and Soviet cinema, include 'Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany' (1998) and the KINOfile Film Companion to 'The Battleship Potemkin' (2001), both I.B.Tauris. He is Series Editor of Tauris' 'KINO: TheRussian Cinema Series'.

General Editor's Preface
Introduction
Translator's Note
Abbreviations
1922: 1 Sergei Yutkevich and Eisenstein: The Eighth Art.
On Expressionism, America and, of course, Chaplin. 1923: 2 The Montage of Attractions.
1924: 3 The Montage of Film Attractions. 1925: 4 The Problem of the Materialist Approach to Form.
5 The Method of Making a Workers' Film. 1926: 6 Constanta (Whither 'The Battleship Potemkin').
7 However Odd - Khokhlova! 8 Eisenstein on Eisenstein, the Director of 'Potemkin'.
9 Bela Forgets the Scissors. 10 The Two Skulls of Alexander the Great.
11 The German Cinema. A Traveller's Impressions. 1927: 12 Give Us a State Plan.
1928: 13 Literature and Cinema: Reply to a Questionnaire.
14 What We Are Expecting from the Party Conference on Cinema.
15 Our 'October'. Beyond the Played and the Non-Played. 16 For a Workers' Hit.
17 Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Grigori Alexandrov: Statement on Sound.
18 An Unexpected Juncture. 19 Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov: The Twelfth Year.
20 The GTK Teaching and Research Workshop. A Conversation with the Leader of the Workshop, S.M. Eisenstein. 1929: 21 Conversation with Eisenstein on Sound Cinema.
22 The Form of the Script. 23 'The Arsenal' 24 Beyond the Shot. 25 Perspectives.
26 The Dramaturgy of Film Form. 27 The Fourth Dimension in Cinema.
1930: 28 The Principles of the New Russian Cinema.
29 Rin-Tin-Tin Does His Tricks for Noted Russian Movie Man.
30 The Dynamic Square. 1932: 31 Help Yourself? 32 In the Interests of Form.
1933: 33 Throug the Revolution to Art: Through Art to the Revolution.
34 Pantagruel Will be Born. 35 To Your Posts! 36 George Melies's Mistake.
37 An Attack by Class Allies. 38 Cinema and the Classics.
1934: 39 For Elevated Ideological Content, for Film Culture!
40 On Fascism, German Cinema and Real Life. Open Letter to the German Minister of Propaganda, Dr Goebbels.
41 'Eh!' On the Purity of Film Language. 42 At Last!
Notes
Index