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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
