This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia by Joan Neuberger [book review]
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Joan Titus, Professor of Musicology (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: In This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia, Joan Neuberger offers a detailed examination of Sergei Eisenstein’s final film, Ivan the Terrible (parts 1, 2, and 3), and asserts that the film was a laboratory for the director’s accumulated lifelong theories and practices in Soviet Russian cinema. She presents several related arguments to illustrate how Eisenstein enacted his theories to create a portrait of Ivan that resonated with myriad historical accounts of the former tsar and Eisenstein’s personal experiences with mid-twentieth-century Soviet rule. Neuberger divides these arguments into six chapters, where she draws on the director’s unpublished and published notebooks and collates them with known secondary literature in English and Russian, including Noam Kleiman’s important work. Neuberger states that one of her goals is to familiarize readers with the significance of the film and make its complexity approachable for audiences.
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia by Joan Neuberger [book review]
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Additional Information
- Publication
- American Historical Review, 126(2), June 2021, 876-877
- Language: English
- Date: 2021
- Keywords
- Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Russian film, book reviews