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Eisenstein's two projects for a film about Moscow.
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ABSTRACT
Eisenstein twice embarked on films about Moscow, though neither project was fully scripted, let alone shot: Moscow (Moskva, 1933-34), and the anniversary film Moscow 800 (Moskva 800, 1946-47). Both were commissioned to promote a rebuilt Moscow, the symbolic centre of Stalinist political culture and model for the advanced socialist city. Yet such propagandistic intentions do not define either work. Eisenstein used both projects as occasions for working out his ideas for a total theory of art and life, drawing heavily on pre-modern culture systems as outlined in ...
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