Eisensteinianadj.
/ˌʌɪznˈstʌɪnɪən/, /ˌʌɪznˈʃtʌɪnɪən/, U.S. /ˌaɪzənˈstaɪniən/, /ˌaɪzənˈʃtaɪniən/ Film.
Of or relating to the film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein; resembling or characteristic of his films or ideas; spec. featuring the editing technique of montage.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming unit or team > [adjective] > specific film-maker or director
Keatonesque1921
Eisensteinian1930
Hitchcockian1930
Wellesian1938
Capraesque1939
Fordian1940
Bergmanesque1959
Bressonian1959
Tatiesque1959
Buñuelian1962
Godardian1962
Hawksian1962
Sirkian1963
Felliniesque1965
Langian1966
Kubrickian1968
Warholian1972
Altmanesque1974
Scorsesean1977
Herzogian1979
Tarkovskian1980
Spielbergian1982
Lynchian1984
Tarantinoesque1994
1930 Theatre Guild Mag. Sept. 24/1 There could scarcely be a more striking contrast to Eisensteinian montage than the apparently unmethodical manner in which Chaplin goes about building a film.
1963 Sight & Sound Autumn 204/1 It is a question whether this long overdue invasion of conscience, and the return to an Eisensteinian intellectual humanism, may bring death or regeneration to this fundamentally totalitarian form of expression.
1993 Film Comment Sept. 60/2 But the reviewer was blaming Spielberg's Eisensteinian sci-fi spectacular for the modern moviegoer's refusal to think while enjoying or analyze-while-watching.
2017 Financial Times 24 Mar. 12 I suspect McBurney is aiming for an Eisensteinian kind of montage, but too often it comes out as a messier collage.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1930