Author(s): N. M. Lary
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 1986
Language: English
Pages: 285
City: Ithaca, London
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Part I. Demons behind the Screen......Page 16
Prehistorical......Page 18
1. Shklovsky and Dostoevsky as Demons of Darkness......Page 23
House of the Dead: A Dossier......Page 40
2. Roshal's Socialist Realist Myth......Page 48
Shldovsky and Eisenstein on the New Myths......Page 58
3. Ermler's Pure Art of the Party Line......Page 60
The Problem of the Good Man in Silent Film......Page 62
Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Villains......Page 66
Shklovsky and Eisenstein on Ermler......Page 78
Subhistorical......Page 80
Part II. Power and the Exorcism of Genius......Page 82
Ideological......Page 84
4. Eisenstein's Cinema of Cruelty......Page 86
Dostoevsky and Eisenstein's Tragic Aesthetics......Page 88
Confluences......Page 99
Artistic Encounters......Page 103
The Personal Encounter......Page 108
5. Ivan Pyriev: Struggles of a Journeyman......Page 112
Self-portrait of the Auteur......Page 120
Part III. Restrained Polyphony......Page 152
Voices......Page 154
6. Gambles with(in) Socialist Realism......Page 156
The Meek One: Blandness and Humility......Page 157
The Gambler as an International Venture......Page 162
Twenty-six Days in the Life: An Anniversary Film......Page 164
Nasty Story: A Century of Sixties Liberalism......Page 167
The Uncle's Dream: A Note......Page 175
Kozintzev on the Inadequacies of the Ruling Model......Page 177
7. Kulidzhanov's Urbane Dangers......Page 179
Part IV. The Space of Tragedy......Page 192
8. Kozintsev: The Retrospective View......Page 194
FEKS (and Revolutionary Ferment)......Page 196
The Necessity of the Classics......Page 205
King Lear: A Dostoevskian Tragedy......Page 208
Demonic Tragedy......Page 216
The Russian Tradition......Page 227
Demonological......Page 231
Conclusion......Page 234
Appendix A. The Tragic Universe of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible......Page 238
Appendix B. Eisensteines Notes for a "Chapter on Dostoevsky"......Page 256
Bibliographical Note......Page 266
Filmography......Page 269
Index......Page 274
