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- Title
Film Energy: Process and Metanarrative in Dziga Vertov's "The Eleventh Year" (1928).
- Authors
MacKay, John
- Abstract
This essay discusses the context of the film "The Eleventh Year" which was directed by Dziga Vertov. It is considered to be Vertov's most important film on the great early Russian theme of electrification and the first of his three Ukrainian productions. It is stated that the film is the least known and least frequently discusses of Vertov's major silent documentary features. The film imparts a simple agitational message for the Russian drive toward industrialization and electrification. It is indicated that the plans for the film production considered to be one of the reasons of its failure.
- Subjects
ELEVENTH Year, The (Film); VERTOV, Dziga, 1896-1954; FILMMAKING; INDUSTRIALIZATION; ELECTRIFICATION; DOCUMENTARY films; FILM genres; UKRAINIAN propaganda; FILMMAKERS
- Publication
October, 2007, Issue 121, p41
- ISSN
0162-2870
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1162/octo.2007.121.1.41