I.B.Tauris is delighted to announce the reissue in paperback in three volumes of the definitive, most comprehensive edition, in the finest translations and fully annotated, of the writings of this great filmmaker, theorist and teacher of film - and one of the most original aesthetic thinkers of the twentieth century. Volume 3 follows on from the 1922-34 writings of Volume 1 and parallels Volume 2's essays on the theory of montage. In the period covered by this volume, Eisenstein's film-making ran into the difficulties generated by the Soviet authorities' increasingly restrictive definition of Socialist Realism, by the show trials and the purges, the Second World War, and the post-war proclamation of rigid cultural orthodoxy by Stalin's henchman, Zhdanov. Here we experience Eisenstein's reaction to this hostile environment, as filmmaker, theorist and teacher, from his public obeisance over 'Bezhin Meadow' to his private defiance with 'Ivan the Terrible'.

Richard Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Russian Studies at Swansea University, Wales. His many books on Russian and Soviet cinema include 'Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany' (1998) and the KINOfile Film Companion to 'The Battleship Potemkin' (2001), both from I.B.Tauris. He is Series Editor of 'KINO: The Russian Cinema Series' (I.B.Tauris). William Powell studied Russian at Clifton College, London University and Voronezh University. He has translated other writings by Eisenstein, including his memoirs, 'Beyond the Stars', and a selection of screenplays by Tarkovsky.

Acknowledgments
General Editor's Preface
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Abbreviations
1934: 1 Theatre & Cinema.
1935: 2 Speeches to the All-Union Creative Conference of Soviet Filmworkers
3 The Truth of Our Epoch. 4 Wolves and Sheep: The Director and the Actor.
5 'The Battleship Potemkin' 1925. From the Screen to Life. 6 Happiness.
7 To the Magician of the Pear Orchard. 8 Bolsheviks Do Laugh.
1936: 9 Teaching Programme for the Theory & Practice of Direction. How to teach Direction.
1937: 10 The Mistakes of 'Bezhin Meadow'. 11 From the History of the Making of the Film 'Alexander Nevsky'. 12 An Image of Great Historical Truth & Realism. 1938: 13 Alexander Nevsky & the Rout of the Germans. 14 My Subject is Patriotism.
1939: 15 We Serve the People. 1940: 16 The Problems of the Soviet Historical Film. 17 The Incarnation of Myth. 18 Twenty Years. 1941: 19 The Heirs and Builders of World Culture. 20 Cinema Against Fascism.
1942: 21 'Ivan the Terrible': A Film about the Sixteenth-century. 22 Dickens, Griffiths and Ourselves.
1943/4: 23 A Few Words about My Drawings. 24 Charlie the Kid.
1945: 25 In Close-Up. 26 Mr Lincoln by Mr Ford. 27 How I Became a Director.
1946/7: 28 About Ivan Pyriev. 29 Communist Party Central Committeee Decree on the Film 'A Great Life'
30 Stalin, Molotov & Zhdanov on 'Ivan the Terrible', Part two.
31 The People of One Film. 32 From Lectures on Music & Colour in 'Ivan the Terrible'.
33 The Audience as Creator. 34 'One and Indivisible' (Thoughts on the History of Soviet Cinema).
35 Ever Onwards! (Instead of a Postscript).
Notes
Index