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Endres , Johannes. "Totemismus und Gesellschaft: Eisenstein über Disney." Scientia Poetica 22. (2018): 83–110. Added by: joachim (12/8/18, 3:56 PM) Last edited by: joachim (12/10/18, 6:28 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: de: Deutsch DOI: 10.1515/scipo-2018-003 BibTeX citation key: Endres2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Animation, Disney comics, Film, Reception, Sociology, USA Creators: Endres Collection: Scientia Poetica |
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Sergei Eisenstein’s visit to Hollywood and Mexico, from 1930 to 1932, finds the famous director in rather unfamiliar territory. While his stay yielded little artistic output, in the form of an unfinished movie on Mexico, his theoretical reflections on American film and its foremost champions, Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney, count among the most fascinating, yet also contentious elements of Eisenstein’s intellectual biography. A central part of his American aesthetics is his theory of »totemism«, which he develops in an intricate dialogue with the various encounters on his journey as well as from a plethora of literary references that seems to betray the agenda of his communist beginnings. The article argues that, despite its mystical overtones and logical contradictions, Eisenstein’s theory of »totemism« remains connected to his earlier convictions through an attempt to reconcile his new insights with a critical social or sociological theory.
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