Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xxxi
5. Modernism and the Absolute Film
6. The Philosophical and Occult Background to the Absolute Film 3
7. Modernism and the Absolute Film 39
8. Modernism and Revolution
9. Spiritual Interests in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Russia 205
10. Symbolism and its Legacies 225
11. Constructivism between Productivism and Suprematism 265
12. Eisenstein, Constructivism, and the Dialectic 279
13. Postscript
14. Concluding Unscientific Postscript 439
15. Appendix
16. Viking Eggeling’s Diagonal-Symphonie 445
17. Index 465
18. Film studies is the critical exploration of cinematic texts as art and entertainment 481