'OCTOBER' by Taylor, Richard ISBN 0851709168
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Richard Taylor asks to what extent the film can lay claim to 'authentic' history. He then examines 'Octobers relationship to the politics of the period and explains the theory and its application, as well as placing 'October' in the wider context of Eisenstein's career.
October (1927) was Sergei Eisenstein's third completed feature-film. It is both a testament to Eisenstein's technical genius and one of the most remarkable works of propaganda cinema. In virtuoso and indelible sequences such as the storming of the Winter Palace, Eisenstein recreated the 1917 October Revolution as a heroic spectacle, thus furnishing the fledgling Sovlet republic with its founding myth. In his analysis of October, Richard Taylor asks to what extent the film, commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of the Revolution, can lay claim to being 'authentic' history. He then examines October's relationship to the politics of the period, particularly its contribution to reinforcing the cult of Lenin, developing the emergent cult of Stalin, and eliminating Trotsky from official history. In aesthetic terms October vividly realised Eisenstein's theory of 'intellectual montage': Taylor explains both theory and its application before situating October in the wider context of Eisenstein's career.
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'OCTOBER'
[edit] Author
Taylor, Richard
[edit] ISBN
0851709168
[edit] Published
01/03/2002
[edit] Publisher
BFI Publishing
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paperback
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9.99 (GBP)
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8.99 (GBP)
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