The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram

The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram

Film theory
Haiku--history and criticism
Ideogram

Sergei Eisenstein writes about the similarities between ideograms, including haiku, and film montage, and disparages naturalistic film story telling as primitive.

Eisenstein, Sergei

Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, by Sergei Eisenstein, (1949), translated by Jay Leyda,
pp. 90-103

Hartcourt,
New York

1949

All rights reserved. This essay appears here with the kind permission of Houghton Mifflin Publishing.

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