Теория кино: От Эйзенштейна до Тарковского

Textbook for the course "Theory of Cinematography". The author, a well-known theorist and historian of film art, outlines his concept of cinema as an art of the 20th century; evaluates its role in the spiritual life of modern man. The boundaries of the study are quite wide: from classical cinema to modern. The author focuses on the problems of the relationship between cinema and television, "high" and "low" genres, modern style in cinema, the method of cinema and its differences from the method of theater, literature, painting and music. The author expresses his point of view on many controversial phenomena of cinema art. For students of theatrical and cinematographic universities.