This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia

by Joan Neuberger

Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror in the sixteenth century and in the twentieth, the film's politics, style, and epic scope aroused controversy even before it was released. In This Thing of Darkness, Joan Neuberger offers a sweeping account of the conception, making, and reception of Ivan the Terrible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501732765
• ISBN13: 9781501732768
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher