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Also From The Mit Press: Alexander Dovzhenko. The Poet as Filmmaker - Selected Writings edited and Traslated by Marco Carynnyk
The Ukrainian Filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko (1894 - 1956) is considered by many to have been one of the workd's greatest film directors.
Because of political problems, however, he was able to complete only seven feature length fims; these include his major works, Zvenyhora, Arsenal, and Earth.
"The films lies the primary meaning of my life. They are meant to be poetic films, and contemporary life, with the common man at its center, is their chief subject."
This book is a translation of Dovzhenko's Autobiography, and his Notebooks.
The Notebooks combine a diary, a war journal (he was a war correspondent in World War II), and sketches for work, films, stories, plays, and novels. These reveal Dovzhenko as a gifted writer who incorporated his experience into powerful and often epigraphical visual images.
Filling out this rich portrait of the poet as filmmaker is a preface by Marco Carynnyk, a chronology of Dovzhenko's life, and a filmofraphy that includes all of his film projects whether realized or not.
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