영화 이론 선집『사유 속의 영화』. 세르게이 에이젠슈테인, 발터 벤야민, 모리스 메를로-퐁티, 장-프랑수아 리오타르, 앙드레 말로 등 20세를 대표하는 철학자, 미술이론가, 작가 및 여러 학자들이 영화에 대한 치밀한 사유를 전개한다. 이 책에 실린 모두 열 네 편의 글들은 영화 이론의 고전들을 묶은 앤솔러지이자 인문학적 사유에 깊이를 더해주는 풍요로움의 기록이다. 연대기 순으로 배열되어 있으며, 순서대로 읽어나갈 경우 하나의 성찰이 또 다른 치밀한 사유를 만들어내는 과정을 추적할 수 있다.
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958). In its 2012 decennial poll, the magazine Sight & Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 11th greatest movie of all time.
Eisenstein was among the earliest film theorists. He believed that editing could be used for more than just expounding a scene or moment, through a "linkage" of related images. He developed what he called "methods of montage": 1) Metric 2) Rhythmic 3) Tonal 4) Overtonal 5) Intellectual
Eisenstein's articles and books—particularly Film Form and The Film Sense—explain the significance of montage in detail. His writings and films have continued to have a major impact on subsequent filmmakers.