From Library Journal
Rarely does a critical study of film rest on such a solid foundation as this satisfying, three-dimensional overview of the career of the former Soviet Union's preeminent filmmaker. Goodwin (English, UCLA) proves his thesis that Eisenstein's art can be fully understood only in the context of the political and intellectual climate in which he worked. Reviewing Eisenstein's films, including significant proposed projects that were never realized as well as well-known projects such as Battleship Potemkin (1925) , Alexander Nevsky (1938) , and the Ivan the Terrible films (1942-46), Goodwin charts the radical evolution of Eisenstein's approach to cinema, taking into account the dangerous vagaries of Marxist and Stalinist policies under which he was forced to labor. More than just another critical perspective on a particular set of films, this can be read as a definitive primer of Eisenstein's cinema. For most cinema studies collections.
- Anne Sharpe, Ypsilanti District Lib., Mich.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Anne Sharpe, Ypsilanti District Lib., Mich.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"Goodwin charts the radical evolution of Eisenstein's approach to cinema, taking into account the dangerous vagaries of Marxist and Stalinist policies under which he was forced to labor. More than just another critical perspective on a particular set of films, this can be read as a definitive primer of Eisenstein's cinema." -- Library Journal
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