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Eisenstein on the audiovisual                                                         Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination

         'We had no hesitation in choosing the winner.                              Preface
 Robert Robertson achieves the near-impossible,
 shedding fresh light on Eisenstein without loading                               This not one of those books
 him with ideology.                                                                                  in which I state what I will write about,
 Like the work it describes, this book is symphonic;                               write that I'm writing about it,
 it draws together strong influences and forces around                          and to conclude,
 Eisenstein into a compelling and cogent narrative                                 write about what I have written.
 – at once enjoyable, provocative.’                                                          
It's a book for those who are ready to explore
 Francine Stock, Chair of the judging panel,                                           ideas                     
 And/Or Kraszna-Krausz Prize, 2010                                                      without being told

                                                                                                                what they will read, 
 'Robert Robertson’s book Eisenstein on the Audiovisual                      what they are reading,
 really represents one
 of my preoccupations in being an                       and what to conclude. 
 editor.  It really stretches the field.'  
 Philippa Brewster, Senior Editor, winner of the                                     It's a book for those who
 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation's
 Outstanding Contribution                      think for themselves.
 to Publishing Award, 2014.                                                                                                   
                                                                    
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                                                                                                               'Fascinating and thought-provoking.'
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‘This book is exceptionally well written.                                                  amazon.co.uk                                          
 The argument is straightforward and the text lucid.

 Eisenstein on the Audiovisual should be on the shelves                      Cinema and the Audiovisual Imagination  
 of every library of an institution teaching media                                    is based on courses Robertson has taught at  
​ and/or film studies in the English-speaking world.'                               King's College London, the University of Kent,

 Professor Richard Taylor                                                                       the BFI, and the Netherlands Academy of Film
                                                                                                               and Television    
                                           
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Reviews (operas, music/films, books)
The Kingdom, 18 articles in various Dutch newspapers and magazines (1983-1984)
Oserake and The River That Walks in Time Out London (Wally Hammond, 2002)
                                                                                                                                 
​Articles, interviews

Marina Hammond, BBC World Service, Russian Section, interview about Empedocles (1995)
Tatiana Egorova, Empedokles in Musikalnya Zhien #4, Moscow (1999)
Jaap Mees,
Oserake and the River That Walks, interview in Talking Pictures (2003)
Nick Higham, BBC 4 television, Eisenstein on the Audiovisual (28/4/10)
Julia Sukan del Rio,
Eisenstein on the Audiovisual, interview for postgraduate research on film composers,
Film Studies, University College London (9/7/10)

James Wilson, interview to introduce The Battleship Potemkin, Swedenborg House, London (15/10/10), published in Images of the Afterlife in Cinema by James Wilson, Duchy of Lambeth, 2011
Own articles                                                                                                                                                         
1.  Failure, Intertransparency and the Leaping Elements in Interfaces #13, Dijon (1998)
2.  From Rheingold to Renegade Arts in Filmwaves #3, London (1998)
3.  Film and the Ocean of Music in Filmwaves #7, London (1999)
4.  The Kingdom, an Opera about the Haitian Revolution, Society for Caribbean Studies, Internet (2004)
5.  Que viva Mexico! Eisenstein’s Film-Symphony project in Offscreen, online film journal (2005), in two parts
6.  The Wilderness of the Imagination in Landscape and Arts #36, London (2006)
7.  Eisenstein, Synaesthesia, Symbolism and the Occult Traditions, Offscreen (2006)
     Also published in Italian in
Caracult, online interdisciplinary journal affiliated to Bologna University (2007)
8. 
Testing for Nature’s Equilibrium: Eisenstein and Frank Lloyd Wright on Organic Unity, Offscreen (2007)
9. 
Audiovisual Glass: Eisenstein and Frank Lloyd Wright on Light, Space and Music, Offscreen (2008)
10.
Eisenstein on his Audiovisual Collaboration with Prokofiev, Offscreen (2009)
11.
The Equivalence of Space and Music: Eisenstein and Frank Lloyd Wright in The Soundtrack (March 2010) 

                                                                                Gordon and Breach/Harwood Academic Publishers

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From 1986 to 2000, as an editor at Gordon and Breach/Harwood Academic Publishers
I set up a performing arts programme, publishing journals, books, CDs, videotapes and audiocassettes.

The idea was to focus on the performing arts worldwide.  I was especially interested in commissioning publications about performing traditions and works which combine more

than one medium.  One of the reasons I set up the journal Contemporary Theatre Review
was to introduce theatre ideas and practices from the Continent and further afield, to the UK.

The main aims of my publishing programme were: 
- to publish material by practitioners for practitioners
- to present primary material
- to publish artistic achievements of the 20th century which were thought to have been lost, due to the dictatorships

  of Hitler, Stalin and Franco (The Times Literary Supplement referred to this as a 'programme of reclamation')
- to supplement traditional paper media with accompanying CDs, videotapes, cassettes, and online facilities.

I commissioned the following journals and book series:
Contemporary Music Studies
Contemporary Theatre Review
Contemporary Theatre Studies
Russian Theatre Archive
Polish Theatre Archive
German Theatre Archive
Greek and Roman Theatre Archive
Greek Poetry Archive

I managed the following publications:
Contemporary Music Review
Music Archive Publications (music scores)
Musical Performance
Studies in Russian Musicology
Netherlands Music Archive
Choreography and Dance
Choreography and Dance Studies
Choreography and Dance Archive (videotape and text format)
The Language of Dance Series
Poets' Voices (text and CD format)
Performing Arts International
Performing Arts Studies
Mask: A Release of Acting Resources
Computers and the History of Art


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