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This Thing of Darkness - Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
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This Thing of Darkness - Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
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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 This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger
offers a sweeping account of the conception, making, and reception
of Ivan the Terrible that weaves together Eisenstein's expansive
thinking and experimental practice with a groundbreaking new view
of artistic production under Stalin. Drawing on Eisenstein's
unpublished production notebooks, diaries, and manuscripts,
Neuberger's riveting narrative chronicles Eisenstein's personal,
creative, and political challenges and reveals the ways cinematic
invention, artistic theory, political critique, and historical and
psychological analysis went hand in hand in this famously complex
film. Neuberger's bold arguments and daring insights into every
aspect of Eisenstein's work during this period, together with her
ability to lucidly connect his wide-ranging late theory with his
work on Ivan, show the director exploiting the institutions of
Soviet artistic production not only to expose the cruelties of
Stalin and his circle but to challenge the fundamental principles
of Soviet ideology itself. Ivan the Terrible, she argues, shows us
one of the world's greatest filmmakers and one of the 20th
century's greatest artists observing the world around him and
experimenting with every element of film art to explore the
psychology of political ambition, uncover the history of recurring
cycles of violence and lay bare the tragedy of absolute power.
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