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Jay Leyda (1910-1988) was a leading film historian and filmmaker who studied directing with Sergei Eisenstein at the Moscow State Film School. He was a correspondent for Theatre Arts Monthly and New Theatre and an art critic for the Moscow News. He is the translator of Mussorgsky's correspondence and editor of Eisenstein's Film Essays and a Lecture (Princeton) and Film Form and The Film Sense. With Zina Voynow, he wrote and compiled Eisenstein at Work.

"Certainly the most important appraisal of Russian film ever made in book form."--Theatre Arts "Exceedingly interesting, authoritative and well-documented."--The Times Literary Supplement "The only work to give such a full and fluent survey of that great area of film production which has been both a stimulus and an enigma to the rest of the world."--The New York Times Book Review