Experimental Cinema, Number 4 ("Que Viva Mexico!", Eisenstein, Alexandrov, Tisse)
Los Angeles: Experimental Cinema/ Stanley Rose & John Murray, 1932. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. 64pp. Photo-illustrated b/w wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. This is issue #4 of the leftist, socialist and avant-garde cinema periodical that was published irregularly from 1930-1934. There seems to have been only 5 issues ever printed. This issues on focuses Sergei Eisenstein's then ongoing film project "Que Viva Mexico!", which he had been shooting in Mexico, along with his frequent collaborators Grigori Aleksandrov, and Eduard Tisse. Ultimately the film was never completed. Profusely illustrated throughout with striking b/w stills from the film and behind-the-scenes photos of Eisenstein working. Other articles/essay includes analyses and criticism of current cinematic techniques and trends in Hollywood films, and analysis of soviet & socialist cinema. Also included is a short profile on film director Ilya Trauberg. Book block with some light rippling throughout as a result of exposure to water. Wrappers with some light water stains and scratches. Light rubbing to extremities and some chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Interior with some sporadic light water stains, light smudges and/or age toning to pages. Images pretty clean overall. Wrappers in good-, interior in good condition overall. Wrappers protected by modern mylar. g- to g. Item #43680
* Founded by Lewis Jacobs, "Experimental Cinema" magazine ran 5 issues from from February 1930-1934, and is considered among the first publications to view and and write about cinema as art. Every issue dealt at least partially with Soviet Cinema and it appears as though most issues discussed Sergei Eisenstein and his work, to one degree or another. This magazine considered to be the first time the two word "Experimental" and "Cinema" were directly connected and used in print without any space between them. This was quite a groundbreaking publication in the history of avant-garde cinema.
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