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American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

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Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

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For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

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It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

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Born: January 10, 1898

Died: February 11, 1948 (aged 50)

Bio: Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).

Known for:

Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928)
¡Que viva México!

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