title: Sergey Eisenstein: Director’s interpretation of Alexander Rzheshevsky’s screenplay Bezhin Meadow
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metadata.value: Ogudov, Sergey A.
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metadata.value: 2023-02-07T19:33:33Z
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metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Ogudov S. A. Sergey Eisenstein: Director’s interpretation of Alexander Rzheshevsky’s screenplay Bezhin Meadow. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2022, 19 (3): 559–574. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.310 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.310
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39058
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metadata.value: This article examines the interpretation of Alexander Rzheshevsky’s screenplay Bezhin Meadow
  by Sergey Eisenstein. Comparison of different versions of the script reveals the emergence
  of the film’s conception and changes of the narrative made during the transition from the
  screenplay to the shooting script. Special attention was given to Eisenstein’s interpretation
  of the three key episodes of the future film: siege of the church, highway episode, and defeat
  of the church. The reduction of narrative distance and the growth of the scale of an event are
  exemplified are exemplifies by the scene of the siege of the church. From this point of view the
  shelling of peasants from the church and the subsequent assault evoke episodes from Battleship
  “Potemkin” and October. The interpretation of the highway episode is based on the use of
  visual and aural counterpoint. Eisenstein finds the equivalent of the spoken word through the
  use of the contrasting montage that combines images with speech, noise and music. Eisenstein
  strengthens the role of religious reminiscences in the central episode of the defeat of the
  church while showing the destruction of religious objects. Each of these episodes in a way or
  another implies violence and oriented to the expression of traumatic experience. In this sense
  Rzheshevsky’s screenplay echoed Eisenstein’s creative preoccupations. It made possible the
  depiction of historical events in such a way that history itself becomes a substitute for this
  experience. The study of the narrative in the screenplay allows us to reconstruct the content of
  the unfinished and forbidden film.
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metadata.value: ru
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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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 19; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: S. Eisenstein
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. Rzheshevsky
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: screenplay
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: shooting script
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: narrative
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Sergey Eisenstein: Director’s interpretation of Alexander Rzheshevsky’s screenplay Bezhin Meadow
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metadata.value: Article
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