The book presents the theoretical reference for the film.  As the ancestor of the film industry, Sergei Eisenstein was a soviet film director and film theorist, this book was one of  his last tasks which gives readers some theoretical references of film form.

It has lined out very detailed and systematic introduction to the theory of the shoot in films. Most importantly, the author proposed a montage theory.Montage is an important film theory, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed description, it could be a preliminary understanding of montage.Battleship Potemkin(1925)could be the best example for Sergei Eisenstein’s theory.It also   pointed out the formal categories of montage.

In another Word，Montage is editing，this book provides a clear direction for understanding the concept of montage.