title: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, Indeterminacy, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
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metadata.value: Platt, K. M. F.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-06-07T16:07:32Z
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metadata.value: 2021-06-07T16:07:32Z
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metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Platt K. M. F. ‘Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, Indeterminacy, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 240–247.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.118
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/29232
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metadata.value: This essay praises Joan Neuberger’s book This Thing of Darkness (Cornell University Press, 2019) as
  a great accomplishment in cinematic interpretation and a detailed and subtle historical account. It contests Neuberger’s
  argument that Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible films present an unequivocal critique of Stalin and Stalinism
  by means of a historical analogy with Ivan. Platt argues that the films are intentionally, stubbornly ambivalent in
  their representation of Ivan, and by extension Stalin. He contends that although this was indeed a subversive
  movie in the Stalinist USSR, Eisenstein’s films did not offer any finalized conception of the historical role of these
  figures, and instead should be viewed as works that thematize the impossibility of achieving certainty in historical
  interpretation. In reading Neuberger’s This Thing of Darkness, one feels the urgency of the author’s efforts to
  prove that Eisenstein offered an unequivocal, “radical” and “subversive” denunciation of Stalin and the social
  violence of his era — one that accords with our own rejection of the Stalinist legacy. Author sympathizes with this
  effort, but it is misguided. Considered in his own social context, one cannot but appreciate Eisenstein’s bravery in
  articulating a different, but no less subversive position: as seen through the lens of Ivan the Terrible, Stalinist Russia
  was revealed to be incomplete, charged with contradictions that made it impossible to come to conclusions
  concerning the meaning of events.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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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: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Eisenstein
metadata.lang: en_GB
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.subject
metadata.value: cinema
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hermeneutics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: suspicion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, Indeterminacy, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
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metadata.value: Article
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