Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Rethinking Eisenstein / Al La Valley, Barry P. Scherr 1

Pt. 1 Eisenstein's Theory and Practice: New Perspectives

Eisenstein, Socialist Realism, and the Charms of Mizanstsena / David Bordwell 13

The Evolving Eisenstein: Three Theoretical Constructs of Sergei Eisenstein / Oksana Bulgakowa 38

Maintaining, Blurring, and Transcending Gender Lines in Eisenstein / Al La Valley 52

The Circle and the Line: Eisenstein, Florensky, and Russian Orthodoxy / Rosamund Bartlett 65

Eisenstein's October: On the Cinematic Allegorization of History / Hakan Lovgren 77

Pt. 2 Eisenstein and Cultural Interactions: An Anxious Influence

Eisenstein: Lessons with Hollywood / James Goodwin 91

Censorship, Culture, and Codpieces: Eisenstein's Influence in Britain during the 1930s and 1940s / Ian Christie 109

Viktor Shklovsky: The Good and Awkward Friend / Nikita Lary 121

Once in a Lifetime: Eisenstein and His Associates as Literary Prototypes in a Novel by Lev Kassil / Omry Ronen 129

Eisenstein: Barometer of the Thaw / Josephine Woll 136

In the Name of the Father: The Eisenstein Connection in Films by Tarkovsky and Askoldov / Andrew Barratt 148

Eisenstein and Tarkovsky: A Montage of Attractions / Vida T. Johnson 161

Visual Patterning, Vertical Montage, and Ideological Protest: Eisenstein's Stylistic Legacy to East European Filmmakers / Herbert Eagle 169

Pt. 3 Recontextualizing the Late Films: History, Film, and Politics

A History of Bezhin Meadow / Peter Kenez 193

Alexander Nevsky: Film without a Hero / Barry P. Scherr 207

The Politics of Bewilderment: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in 1945 / Joan Neuberger 227

The Power of Grammar and the Grammar of Power: The Childhood Scenes in Ivan the Terrible / Alexander Zholkovsky 253

Ivan the Terrible: Eisenstein's Rules of Reading / Yuri Tsivian 268

Ivan the Terrible and "The Juncture of Beginning and End" / Anne Nesbet 292

About the Contributors 305

Index 309