In and Out of Synch: The Awakening of a Cine-Dreamer

by Noël Burch

This collection of essays, written between 1970 and 1985, traces the author's thinking from a formalist position to his present preoccupation with the social, ideological and pedagogical dimensions of the film. There are essays on some of the classic auteurs such as Eisenstein, Dreyer, Lang, L'Herbier and Porter, the silent Soviet cinema, the parallels between primitive cinema and the various avant-gardes, and on the functioning of archetypal sub-text...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859678679
• ISBN13: 9780859678674
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Scolar Pr
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"