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Review title: underwhelming
Product review: Bruce Block opens his book by claiming that he is drawing upon the teachings of Eisenstein. He isn't. The vast majority of the book is given to analyzing the "hidden lines" within images. Unfortunately, there is a catch. The hidden visual structure within an image may have some kind of resonance - I'm not really sure, but it seems to me to be sister to the kind of "the work of Virginia Wolf analyzed in meta-postmodern-structuralism," analysis that obscures, rather than illuminating, the essential elements that make a given work of art/lit/film succeed.Film is made of story, sound, image, and cut - I suppose that it isn't Block's fault that he chooses to focus on overanalyzing just one of those categories, but I do wish that the film school grad who recommended that I read this book had not.Refund.
