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This thing of darkness : Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia / Joan Neuberger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [(c)2019.]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 404 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1501732773
  • 9781501732775
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1997.77
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Contents:
The potholed path : Ivan in production -- Shifts in time : Ivan as history -- Power personified : Ivan as biography -- Power projected : Ivan as fugue -- How to do it : Ivan as polyphonic montage -- The official reception : Ivan as triumph and nightmare.
Summary: "Eisenstein's diaries and production notebooks show that he carefully planned Ivan the Terrible to be a devastating critique of Stalinism, a profound study of the tragedy of absolute power, and a wildly innovative use of montage, all wrapped inside a narrative that would receive Stalin's approval"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The potholed path : Ivan in production -- Shifts in time : Ivan as history -- Power personified : Ivan as biography -- Power projected : Ivan as fugue -- How to do it : Ivan as polyphonic montage -- The official reception : Ivan as triumph and nightmare.

"Eisenstein's diaries and production notebooks show that he carefully planned Ivan the Terrible to be a devastating critique of Stalinism, a profound study of the tragedy of absolute power, and a wildly innovative use of montage, all wrapped inside a narrative that would receive Stalin's approval"--

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