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Exegi Monumentum Revolutionis – On Eisenstein’s "October"
- Author(s):
- Natascha Drubek (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Film Studies, History, Soviet and Russian history and culture
- Subject(s):
- Motion pictures and history, Motion pictures, Soviet, Soviet Union, History, Sculpture, Revolution (France , Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Eisenstein, Jakobson, Film and history, Soviet film, Soviet history, French Revolution, Pushkin
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/61g8-mj38
- Abstract:
- This essay discusses the cinematic representation of Revolution in Sergei Eisenstein’s film Oktiabr’ / October, a film which had a decisive impact on the revolutionary development of film history and theory. I will explore how Revolution can be re-enacted and shown in the medium of cinema, and how this medium is capable of not only staging history in a pseudo-documentary form but also retain the dialectical gist of the philosophy behind the political revolution. The motifs I will draw upon for my analysis will be sculptures and monuments.
- Notes:
- When the statue of a slave trader was pulled down in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter demo on 7 June 2020, I decided that I would like to release this piece discussing the symbolic value (of toppling) statues. – This is an unabridged version of a paper given at a conference in Munich in June 2016. The article will appear in: Ch. Balme, M. Schulze Wessel, U. Brunnbauer (eds.): The Culture of the Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact: Semantics–Performances–Functions, Munich 2020.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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