This Thing of Darkness : : Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia /

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

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Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror in the sixteenth century and in the twentieth, the film's politics, style, and epic scope aroused controversy even before it was released. In...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Neuberger, Joan,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.) :; 34 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Transliteration, Translations, and Citations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Potholed Path: Ivan in Production
  • 2. Shifts in Time: Ivan as History
  • 3. Power Personified: Ivan as Biography
  • 4. Power Projected: Ivan as Fugue
  • 5. How to Do It: Ivan as Polyphonic Montage
  • 6. The Official Reception: Ivan as Triumph and Nightmare
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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