title: Joan Neuberger’s This Thing of Darkness
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metadata.value: Tsivian, Yu.
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metadata.value: 2021-06-07T16:10:09Z
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metadata.value: 2021-06-07T16:10:09Z
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metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Tsivian Yu. ‘Joan Neuberger’s This Thing of Darkness’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 248–251.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.119
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/29233
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metadata.value: The note is about the place of Joan Neuberger’s monograph among books on Eisenstein’s Ivan the
  Terrible, and, more broadly, among writings on period films, be they by film historians or by historians proper.
  The book is a triple portrayal — of Eisenstein, his Ivan, and, indirectly, of Stalin, whose favorite pastime was
  to use historical novels, plays, and films on Russia’s historic tyrants as one might a vanity mirror. The virtue of
  Neuberger’s approach is that, rather than judge or define, she successfully captures the ambiguity of each of
  her three protagonists. It is as much an analysis of the movie as an ambivalent mirror as it is of the person that
  holds it and of the one who expects to see in it a flattering reflection of himself — to no avail. Instead of assuming
  a bird’s eye point of view on the Soviet film-land, Neuberger nose-dove into it like a kid-loving pelican, picked
  one film and brought it to us in a big beak of a book. That is not to portray Joan Neuberger as a shape-shifter,
  a historian-turned-film-scholar. Yes, film scholars do write book-length studies on a single movie while political
  historians rarely do, but the choice of this specific format does not turn Neuberger into a film scholar. There is a lot
  of superb film scholarship to be found here, but the stunt that makes Neuberger’s scholarship unique is that, for
  all its film-scholarship lenses, it remains a historical study par excellence.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: film
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cinema
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ambiguity
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eisenstein
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ivan the Terrible
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stalin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Joan Neuberger’s This Thing of Darkness
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metadata.value: Article
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