Jay Leyda

Jay Leyda (1910 - February 15David Stirk and Elena Pinto Simon in Ian Christie and Richard Taylor, "Eisenstein Rediscovered", Routledge, 1993, p41. ISBN 0415049504 ] , 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). In the 1940s he translated Eisenstein's writings.

He was awarded the Eastman Kodak Gold Medal Award in 1984.

elected filmography

*"A Bronx Morning" (1931)

elected 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.
*"", 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.

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