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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501732775
035 _a(DE-B1597)503402
035 _a(OCoLC)1047573373
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNeuberger, Joan
_eautore
245 1 0 _aThis Thing of Darkness :
_bEisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia /
_cJoan Neuberger.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c2019
300 _a1 online resource (424 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tTransliteration, Translations, and Citations --
_tList of Abbreviations --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. The Potholed Path: Ivan in Production --
_t2. Shifts in Time: Ivan as History --
_t3. Power Personified: Ivan as Biography --
_t4. Power Projected: Ivan as Fugue --
_t5. How to Do It: Ivan as Polyphonic Montage --
_t6. The Official Reception: Ivan as Triumph and Nightmare --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aSergei 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 Drawing on Eisenstein's unpublished production notebooks, diaries, and manuscripts, Neuberger's riveting narrative chronicles Eisenstein's personal, creative, and political challenges and reveals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 twentieth 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_xPolitical aspects
_zSoviet Union.
650 4 _aFilm.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aSoviet & East European History.
650 7 _aPERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts).
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653 _aIvan the Terrible, Stlin, Eisenstein, Soviet, cruelties, film, politics.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501732775
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501732775
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