The Soviet film director and cinema theoretician Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) achieved fame for his emotionally inflammatory political epics of the Russian Revolution.Born in Riga, the s...
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In the following essay, which first appeared in the Soviet journal New Lef, Brik charges that Eisenstein's October falsifies historical facts.
Sergei Eisenstein has slipped into a difficult ...
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In the following essay, Eagle provides an overview of Eisenstein's critical writings and demonstrates how the director's theories were exemplified in his films.
Sergei Eisenstein dedi...
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Leyda is an American critic, filmmaker, and the translator of several of Eisenstein's works on film theory. In the following essay, he analyzes Eisenstein's political goals and influence...
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In the following essay, Pechter questions the validity of Eisenstein's reputation as a great filmmaker.
The great success of the 1925 Moscow film season was not Potemkin, but some undistingu...
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An American educator and critic, Seydor is the author of a study of the westerns of director Sam Peckinpah. In the following essay, he contends that Eisenstein was a purveyor of doctrine whose films m...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1974 in Cinema Journal, Kepley examines Eisenstein's reworking of his film Old and New in compliance with the demands of evolving Soviet agricult...
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Question 1 of 10:Before a wrist injury made it impossible, the young
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Set on a knoll overlooking an oxbow bend in the Moscow River, the hallowed ground of the Novodevichy Cemetery holds the remains of scores of engineers, artists and politicians who helped shape Russ...
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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
Critical Essay by O. Brik
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