This thing of darkness [electronic resource] : Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia / Joan Neuberger
- Author:
- Neuberger, Joan, 1953-
- Published:
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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- Contents:
- The pot-holed 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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- ISBN:
- 9781501732775 (pdf)
9781501732782 (epub/mobi)
9781501732768 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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