Dziga Vertov

For 60 years, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, creator of the famed Man with a Movie Camera (1929), has been recognized as a founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and political-propaganda film. This book addresses Vertov's formative years in prerevolutionary and Soviet Russia, alongside his interests in music, poetry and technology.

Note on Abbreviations, Transliteration, and Translations
Introduction. How Did It Begin?
Chapter 1. Province of Universality: David Kaufman before the War (1896 1914)
Chapter 2. Social Immortality: David Kaufman at the Psychoneurological Institute (1914 16)
Chapter 3. The Beating Pulse of Living Life: Musical, Futurist, Nonfiction, and Marxist Matrices (1916 18)
Chapter 4. Christ among the Herdsmen: From Refugee to Propagandist (1918 22)
Acknowledgments
Film Archives Consulted
Filmography
Bibliography
Index