Author: Sergei Eisestein Original Title: наследник Date of Publication: 1946 Pages: 3 Nationality: Soviet Union Original Language: RUS Editor: Antonio Somaini Presented with: Amsterdam University Press, from Sergei M. Eistenstein: Notes for a General History of Cinema (forthcoming), ed(s): Naum Kleiman, Antonio Somaini, The excerpt from the notes for (Eisenstein’s) General History of Cinema here published...
Author: Juan Piqueras Original Title: Nuestro cine amateur en Nuestro Cinema Journal: Nuestro Cinema, num. 4, 2 Epoca Date of Publication: August, 1935 Pages: 1 Nationality: Spanish Original Language: ESP Translator: Lisa Jarvinen Presented by: Translation Committee of Society for Cinema and Media Studies, published in Cinema Journal 51, No. 2, Summer 2012 The intense political divisions in (interwar) Spain also played themselves out in...
Author: Sergei Tretyakov Original Title: Производственный сценарий (Proizvodstvennyi Stsenarii) Journal: Новый ЛЕФ (Novyi Lef) Volume: No 2, pp. 29-34 Date of Publication: February, 1928 Pages: 5 Nationality: Soviet Union Original Language: RUS Translator: Mihaela Mihailova Editor: Masha Salazkina Presented by: Translation Committee of Society for Cinema and Media Studies, published in Cinema Journal 51, No. 2, Summer 2012 Sergei Tretyakov...
Author: Juan Piqueras Original Title: Campañas destiempo: Versiones, Sincronizaciones, Subtítulos Journal: Nuestro Cinema Date of Publication: 1932, No.1 Pages: 3 Nationality: Spanish Original Language: ESP The Spanish film press has started a campaign against the dubbing of foreign language films into Spanish. This has reached such alarming proportions at times that after begging the Government of the...
The Permanent Seminar keeps a holiday home on Facebook, and as our work heats up with the weather it is sometimes the best place to go for the very latest updates as they pass the desk of its editor. The Facebook site also has a new design, so please do give it a look...
With Spring comes an exciting new release from our partners at Amsterdam University Press, part of Permanent Seminar’s book series, “Film Theory in Media History.” Jean Epstein: New Translations and Critical Essays, a sparkling collection edited by Sarah Keller and Jason Paul, can now be found on UK bookshelves (July 15th for the Americas), and...
“The Impact of Technological Innovations on the Theory and Historiography of Cinema” conference in Montreal at Cinémathèque Québécoise included round table events featuring members of The Permanent Seminar, as well as several papers. Roundtable discussion: On Apparatus Theory and its relevance in an era of multi-screen ubiquity. Moderated by Francesco Casetti. Nov. 3rd, 9:00-11:35@Norman-McLaren Roundtable discussion: What are...
In the fall of 2010, the Permanent Seminar on History of Film Theories helped to sponsor a conference entitled Sergei Eisenstein’s Unpublished “Notes for a General History of Cinema”. This event was held September 30 – October 2, 2010, at Columbia University, New York, NY . The conference served as a platform for the critical...
In cooperation with the Permanent Seminar, the Udine International Film Studies Conference, 23-26 March, 2009, was on the theme: In The Very Beginning and At The Very End. The goal was to study how early cinema was defined and framed in relation to the artistic and cultural phenomena of its times under as many national...
Author: Giovanni Papini Original Title: La filosofia del cinematografo Journal: “La Stampa” (Turin) Volume: XLI Date of Publication: 18 May 1907 Pages: 2 Nationality: Italian Original Language: ITA In just a short period, in every large town in Italy we have seen the almost miraculous multiplication of motion picture theatres. In Florence alone, the city where...
