Eisenstein, Cinema, and History

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   Lukács, 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 projects of the 1930s, and