Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cineacute;ma veacute;rite; Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Godard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece; Man with a Movie Camera. Recently; however Vertov has begun to be recognised as the creator of a body of innovative and distinct films and; as Jeremy Hicks argues; documentary as we know it today is unthinkable without the rediscovery of Vertov. This; the first book in English to cover the whole of Vertovrsquo;s career; reveals him to be an auteur; allowing readers to combine the familiar and less familiar aspects of his filmmaking and thinking in a cohesive narrative. Jeremy Hicks demonstrates how Vertov draws on Soviet journalistic models for his transformation of newsreel into the new form of documentary film. Through analyses of Cine-Pravda No 21 (Leninist Cine-Pravda); Cine-Eye; Forward Soviet!; A Sixth Part of the Earth; The Eleventh Year; Man with a Movie Camera; Enthusiasm; Three Songs of Lenin; and Lullaby; he shows how Vertovrsquo;s greatest works combine authentic documentary footage ingeniously for tremendous rhetorical effect. Today; with the energetic revival of interest in documentary film; Vertovrsquo;s reflexive and overtly partisan films are of great relevance; but they need to be better known and understood. This is the purpose of Dziga Vertov - Defining Documentary Film.
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