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

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

Joan Neuberger

424 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

challenging reflective tense medium-paced
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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 c...

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