Jay Leyda (1910 - February 15[1], 1988) was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet and Chinese Cinema. He was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League in the early 1930s. He participated in the filming of Sergei Eisenstein's lost film Bezhin Meadow (1935-7).[1] In the 1940s he translated Eisenstein's writings.
He was awarded the Eastman Kodak Gold Medal Award in 1984.
Selected filmography
Selected bibliography
- The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951.
- Sergei Rachmaninoff, a Lifetime in Music, (with Sergei Bertensson), New York: New York University Press, 1956.
- The Years And Hours of Emily Dickinson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.
- Kino: A History Of The Russian And Soviet Film, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960.
- Films Beget Films: A Study of the Compilation Film", New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.
- Dianying/Electric Shadows: An Account of Films and the Film Audience in China. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972.
- Eisenstein At Work (with Zina Voynow), Pantheon Books, 1980.
- Eisenstein on Disney, Methuen Paperback, 1986.
References
- ^ a b David Stirk and Elena Pinto Simon in Ian Christie and Richard Taylor, Eisenstein Rediscovered, Routledge, 1993, p41. ISBN 0415049504
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