Eisenstein and the English

S.M. Eisenstein , The Film Sense (ed. & trans. J. Leyda ) (New York, 1942; London, 1943) and Film Form. Essays in Film Theory (ed. & trans. J. Leyda ) (New York, 1949; London, 1951).

S.M. Eisenstein , Selected Works. Vol. I. Writings, 1922-34 (ed. & trans. R. Taylor ), hereafter ESW I, ( London, and Bloomington, Indiana, 1988), ix.

For details of Potemkin's reception abroad, see: H. Marshall (ed.), The Battleship Potemkin ( New York, 1979), I17-235, and: G. Kuhn , K. Tummler & W. Wimmer (eds), Film und revolutionare Arbeiterbewegung in Deutschland 1918- 1932 (Berlin, GDR, 1975), vol. I, 323-69.

L. Anderson , "From Russia with Charm", Daily Telegraph, I9 March 1988, viii.

The Economist, 2-8 April 1988, p. 82.

The fullest account of Eisenstein's life is given in: W. Sudendorf (ed.), Sergei M. Eisenstein: Materialien zu Leben und Werk (Munich , 1975) but there is a useful briefer English chronology in: I. Christie & D. Elliott (eds), Eisenstein at Ninety ( Oxford, 1988), 131-66.

S.M. Eisenstein , Immoral Memories. An Autobiography (trans. H. Marshall) ( London, 1985), 264.

Kuleshov's earliest articles are reproduced in: R. Taylor & I. Christie (eds.), The Film Factory, Russian & Soviet Cinema in Documents, 1896-1939 (London, and Cambridge, Mass., 1988), 41-6, 66-7, 72-5.

Y. Tsivian , "Some Observations on Early Russian Cinema", in: R. Taylor & I. Christie (eds.), Inside the Film Factory: New Approaches to Russian and Soviet Cinema (London, 1991).

S.M. Eizenshtein [Eisenstein], "Sredniaia iz trekh, I924-I929" [The Middle of Three, I924-I929], translated as 'Through Theatre to Cinema' in: Film Form, 8.

ESW I, 29-32.

Ibid, 34.

N. Lary has translated the polemical exchange of letters in: J. Leyda (ed.), Eisenstein 2: A Premature Celebration of Eisenstein's Centenary (Calcutta , 1985), 1-8.

ESW I, 41.

Ibid, 32.

R. Taylor , The Politics of the Soviet Cinema, I9I7-I929 ( Cambridge , 1979), 95.

Unpublished research by M. Turovskaia, E. Khokhlova, and others, Moscow.

ESW I, 17-18, 174, 179-80, 193.

The Film Factory, 216-34.

See, for example: A. Walker , The Shattered Silents ( London, 1978).

ESW I, 113-14; The Film Factory, 234-5.

ESW I, 186.

See, for instance: "Rin-Tin-Tin Does His Tricks for Noted Russian Movie Man", ESW I, 203-5.

The campaign against Eisenstein was led by a self-styled " professional American patriot", Maj. Pease. See: M. Seton, Sergei M. Eisenstein. A Biography (London, 1952; revised edition, London, 1978), 167-8.

The history of this film project is fully related in: H. M. Geduld & R. Gottesman (eds), The Making and Unmaking of 'Que viva México!' ( London, and Bloomington, Indiana, 1970).

Unpublished research by M. Turovskaia , E. Khokhlova and others, Moscow. 27. The Film Factory , 387-8.

The background to the production is well covered in an unpublished research paper by R. Bartlett (St Antony's College, Oxford) entitled "Eisenstein and Wagner: The Embodiment of Myth".

To use the colourful terminology employed in: H. Marshall , Masters of the Soviet Cinema. Crippled Creative Biographies (London, 1983).

Anderson , op. cit.

See, for instance, ESW I, 195, and, especially, 219—37.

F. Truffaut , Hitchcock (London, 1968), 100. Hitchcock responded, p. 101, "If you examine the history of the cinema, you will see that the art of film-making was often held in contempt by the intellectuals. That must have been true in France, and it was even truer of the British. No well-bred English person would be seen going into a cinema; it simply wasn't done."

F. Hardy , "Censorship and Film Societies", in: C. Davy (ed.), Footnotes to the Film ( London, 1938), 235,

quoted in J. Richards , The Age of the Dream Palace. Cinema and Society in Britain 1930-1939. ( London, 1984), 90.

The Times, I6 January 1935, quoted in Richards, 90.

G. Greene , "Subjects and Stories" in Davy, 66-7, quoted in Richards, 89.

K. Rudnitskii , "Krushenie teatra", Ogonek , 1988, no. 22 (May), 10-14.

R.I. lurenev (ed.), S. M. Eizenshtein. Izbrannye stat'i [S. M. Eisenstein. Selected Articles] (Moscow, 1956).

I. Christie , "Eisenstein at 90", Sight and Sound, vol. 57, no. 3 (Summer 1988), 181.

Loc. cit.

Conversation between Jay Leyda and the author, New York , 1986.

"Eisenstein: His Life and Work", shown in Oxford , London and Manchester.

See above, Note 24.

Hence the title of the programme that I scripted, "Eisenstein: Little Boy from Riga", transmitted on BBC-I, I4 October 1988.

J. Aumont , Montage Eisenstein (London, and Bloomington, Indiana, 1987), 4-5.

J. Babuscio , "Before Glasnost: The Life and Films of Sergei Eisenstein", Gay Times, September 1988, 28-31.

R. Ellmann , Oscar Wilde (London, 1987); I. Gibson , Federico García Lorca. A Life (London, 1989); P. Hill & R. Keynes (eds), Lydia and Maynard. The Letters of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes (London, 1989).

See above, Note 2.

M.B. Yampol'skii , "The Essential Bone-Structure (Mimesis in Eisenstein ", in: I. Christie & R. Taylor (eds), Eisenstein Rediscovered (London, 1991).

The Film Factory, 41-3.