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This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger's engrossing production history of Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, is a major contribution to the study of Eisenstein and thus informs the history and theory of cinema and the study of Soviet culture and politics. Neuberger's ability to mine, interpret, and connect Eisenstein's voluminous, intriguingly digressive writings makes this book exceptional.- Karla Oeler, Stanford UniversitySergei 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 Drawing on Eisenstein's unpublished production notebooks, diaries, and manuscripts, Neuberger's riveting narrative chronicles Eisenstein's personal, creative, and political challenges and reveals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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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mars 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501732775
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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THIS THING OF DARKNESS

THISTHINGOFDARKNESS

E I SE NST E I N’ S I VAN T HE T E RRI BL E I N STAL I N’ S RUSSI A

J o a n N e u b e r g e r

CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESSIthaca and London

Cornell University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Office of the President at The University of Texas at Austin, which provided funds toward the publication of this book.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Neuberger, Joan, 1953– author. Title: This thing of darkness : Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia / Joan Neuberger. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018035596 (print) | LCCN 2018036651 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501732775 (pdf ) | ISBN 9781501732782 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501732768 | ISBN 9781501732768 (cloth; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Ivan Groznyi (Motion picture) | Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898–1948—Criticism and interpretation. | Stalin, Joseph, 1878–1953—Influence. | Ivan IV, Czar of Russia, 1530–1584—In motion pictures. | Motion pictures—Political aspects—Soviet Union. Classification: LCC PN1997.I77 (ebook) | LCC PN1997.I77 N484 2019 (print) | DDC 791.43/72—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035596

Cover illustration: Sergei Eisenstein directing Nikolai Cherkasov in preparation for The Confession in Part III (RGALI, 1923/2/133/14, used by permission).

This thing of darkness, I acknowledge mine. —William Shakespeare,The Tempest

Contents

List of Illustrationsix Acknowledgmentsxi Transliteration, Translations, and Citationsxv List of Abbreviationsxvii

Introduction1. The Potholed Path:Ivanin Production2. Shifts in Time:Ivanas History3. Power Personified:Ivanas Biography4. Power Projected:Ivanas Fugue5. How to Do It:Ivanas Polyphonic Montage6. The Official Reception:Ivanas Triumph and Nightmare Conclusion

Notes347 Bibliography379 Index397

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1.1 Early drawing, February 9, 19411.2 Ivan’s confession1.3 Mikhail Romm playing Elizabeth I1.4 On the set in overcoats2.1 Lev Indenbom2.2 Maliuta: the prey becomes the predator2.3 Ivan asserts his power2.4 Finale: “Apotheosis of Ivan” or “Alone?”3.1 “I’m dying. Beware the boyars.”3.2 “Ivan decides to completely annihilate the feudal landlords”3.3 Oath of the Oprichniki: “The Chancery of the Oprichnina”3.4 Oath of the Oprichniki: Fedka3.5 “Too few”3.6 “Principe de composition pour certains scènes”3.7 The armillary sphere3.8 Efrosinia and the covered chalice3.9 Icons4.1 “Fedka in a sarafan”4.2 Anastasia and Efrosinia4.3 Sigismund, his courtiers, and the source of high shoulders4.4“Sigismund—absoluement efféminé—très gracieux(très Henri III)”4.5 Henri III, after François Clouet, c. 15814.6 Elizabeth at court5.1 Giovanni Battista Piranesi,Imaginary Prisons, no. 145.2Gedanken zur musik, 19385.3 Deathbed: Is Ivan begging, defiant, or dead?5.4 Moskvin and Eisenstein on the set5.5 Lost in thought5.6 The last rites

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