This thing of darkness : Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia /
"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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2019.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv11wj6s |
Table of 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.