How long does it take to read Film Form?
Film Form by Sergei M. Eisenstein takes about 5 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1949. 282 pages, about 77,550 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Director and filmmaker of Silent Movies who later worked in America, Sergei Eisenstein discusses the idea of montage in Russian Film and its compositional differences with films of D. W. Griffith
Subjects: Motion pictures, Silent films, Soviet Filmmaker, Film criticism
