Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257) and index
Beyond recognition: strike and the eye of the Abattoir -- Fourth-dimensional Medusa: Battleship Potemkin and the construction of the Soviet Cinema audience -- Picture-thinking: October and the debris of philosophy -- Excavating the general line: the pleasures and perils of accumulation -- Savage thinking: the sublime surfaces of Eisenstein's Mexico -- The skeleton dance: animation, terror and the musical comedy -- Beyond pleasure: Ivan and the juncture of beginning and end