Among early directors, Sergei Eisentein stands alone as the maker of a fully historical cinema. James Goodwin treats issues of revolutionary history and historical representation as central to an understanding of Eisentein's work, which explores two movements within Soviet history and consciousness: the Bolshevik Revolution and the Stalinist state. Goodwin articulates intersections between Eisentein's ideas and aspects of the thought of Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukacs, Ernst Bloch, and Bertolt Brecht. He also shows how the formal properties and filmic techniques of each work reveal perspectives on history . Individual chapters focus on Strike, Battleship Potemkin, October, Old and New, projects of the 1930s, Alexander Nevsky, and Ivan the Terrible.
- ISBN10 0252019644
- ISBN13 9780252019647
- Publish Date 1 February 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 September 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 274
- Language English