“The hieroglyphic language of the cinema is capable of expressing any concept, any idea of class, any political or tactical slogan, without recourse to the help of a rather suspect dramatic or psychological past.”
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A Dialectic Approach to Film Form By Sergei Eisenstein Essay from “Film Form”; 1949; New York. Written in Moscow, April 1929.
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