Notes

ABBREVIATIONS

Barna: Eisenstein by Yon Barna (Secker and Warburg, 1973)

BTS: Beyond the Stars: The Memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein (BFI Publishing, 1995)

EA: Eisenstein Archives at TsGALI (State Archives of Literature and Arts), Moscow

EC: Eisenstein Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York

E1: Eisenstein’s Writings Volume 1 (BFI Publishing, 1988)

E2: Eisenstein’s Writings Volume 2 (BFI Publishing, 1991)

E3: Eisenstein’s Writings Volume 3 (BFI Publishing, 1996)

Geduld-Gottesman: Sergei Eisenstein and Upton Sinclair: The Making and Unmaking of Qué Viva México! by Harry M. Geduld and Ronald Gottesman (Thames and Hudson, 1970)

IM: Ivan Montagu Collection, BFI, London

Leyda: Eisenstein At Work by Jay Leyda and Zina Voynow (Methuen, 1982)

Montagu: With Eisenstein in Hollywood by Ivor Montagu (Seven Seas, 1968)

Moussinac: Sergei Eisenstein by Léon Moussinac (Crown, 1964)

Nizhny: Lessons With Eisenstein by Vladimir Nizhny (Allen and Unwin, 1962)

Seton: Sergei M. Eisenstein: A Biography by Marie Seton (The Bodley Head, 1952)

Swallow: Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait by Norman Swallow (Allen and Unwin, 1976)

NOTES

*The quotes at the beginning of each chapter are all from Sergei Eisenstein. Their sources are indicated below after an asterisk.

Prologue: Yo!

1 BTS (p. 797)

2 BTS (Foreword)

3 BTS (Acknowledgements)

4 BTS (p. 439)

5 S. M. Eisenstein, Jean Mitry (Paris, 1961)

6 Eisenstein and the English, Richard Taylor (Journal of European Studies, 1990)

7 Masters of the Soviet Cinema, Herbert Marshall (London, 1984)

8 Naum Kleiman to author

9 Nizhny (Foreword)

10 BTS (p. 306)

11 BTS (p. 350)

1 The Childhood of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein

*BTS (p. 21)

1 BTS (p. 43)

2 BTS (p. 18)

3 Swallow

4 EA

5 BTS (p. 725)

6 BTS (p. 527)

7 EA

8 BTS (p. 290)

9 EA

10 Swallow

11 Nizhny (Foreword)

12 BTS (p. 526)

13 BTS (p. 530)

14 BTS (p. 531)

15 BTS (p. 535)

16 BTS (p. 492)

17 BTS (p. 535)

18 BTS (p. 536)

19 BTS (p. 24)

20 BTS (p. 563)

21 BTS (p. 60)

22 BTS (p. 62)

23 BTS (p. 61)

24 EA

25 Ibid.

26 BTS (p. 36)

27 BTS (p. 446)

28 BTS (p. 125)

29 BTS (p. 126)

30 BTS (p. 432)

31 BTS (p. 433)

32 EA

33 E3

34 Swallow

35 Masters of the Soviet Cinema, Herbert Marshall (London, 1984)

36 BTS (p. 544)

37 BTS (p. 424)

38 BTS (p. 9)

39 BTS (p. 409)

40 EA

41 BTS (p. 493)

42 BTS (p. 99)

43 BTS (p. 100)

44 BTS (p. 390)

45 EA

46 BTS (p. 544)

47 Swallow

48 BTS (p. 73)

49 BTS (p. 76)

50 EA

51 Swallow

52 Ibid.

53 EA

54 Ibid.

55 Swallow

56 BTS (p. 576)

57 EA

58 BTS (p. 577)

59 E3

60 EA

61 E2

62 Ibid.

63 Swallow

64 Ibid.

65 Ibid.

66 Ibid.

2 Revolution!

*EA

1 E1

2 BTS (p. 85)

3 BTS (p. 290)

4 BTS (p. 344)

5 Nizhny

6 BTS (p. 85)

7 BTS (p. 89)

8 BTS (p. 16)

9 EA

10 BTS (p. 100)

11 Swallow

12 EA

13 Ibid.

14 Ibid.

15 BTS (p. 521)

16 EA

17 BTS (p. 654)

18 EA

19 Barna

20 BTS (p. 62)

21 BTS (p. 67)

22 BTS (p. 67)

23 BTS (p. 67)

24 BTS (p. 66)

25 BTS (p. 72)

26 BTS (p. 27)

27 E1

28 BTS (p. 462)

29 BTS (p. 28)

30 EA

31 E1

32 BTS (p. 141)

3 Agitka!

*EA

1 BTS (p. 83)

2 Swallow

3 Introduction by Patricia Blake to The Bedbug and Selected Poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky (Meridian Books, 1960)

4 Swallow

5 E1

6 Montagu

7 Kino by Jay Leyda (Allen and Unwin, 1960)

8 E1

9 BTS (p. 243)

10 BTS (p. 269)

11 EA

12 BTS (p. 447)

13 BTS (p. 447)

14 BTS (p. 101)

15 E1

16 BTS (p. 433)

17 E1

18 Ibid.

4 Ciné-Fist!

*E1

1 Ibid.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid.

6 Kino by Jay Leyda (Allen and Unwin, 1960)

7 Ibid.

8 Swallow

9 Ibid.

10 Barna

11 BTS (p. 687)

12 E1

13 Ibid.

14 E2

15 E1

16 Nizhny

17 E1

18 BTS (p. 147)

19 E3

20 BTS (p. 147)

5 Fire!

*BTS (p. 146)

1 BTS (p. 147)

2 E1

3 BTS (p. 152)

4 BTS (p. 148)

5 BTS (p. 149)

6 EA

7 Ibid.

8 Swallow

9 Ibid.

10 EA

11 BTS (p. 173)

12 Black Sea by Neal Ascherson (Vintage, 1995)

13 EA

14 Leyda

15 BTS (p. 157)

16 BTS (p. 167)

17 Swallow

18 BTS (p. 171)

19 Swallow

20 BTS (p. 168)

21 Barna

22 Swallow

23 Nizhny

24 EA

25 BTS (p. 165)

26 BTS (p. 166)

27 The End of Sergei Eisenstein by Waclaw Solski (Commentary, March 1949)

28 E1

29 BTS (p. 16)

30 Memo from David O. Selznick (Viking Press, 1972)

31 Screening The Sexes by Parker Tyler (Henry Holt, 1973)

32 Film Comment (1986)

33 E1

34 Solski as above

35 BTS (p. 327)

36 E1

37 Ibid.

38 Ibid.

39 Ibid.

40 Ibid.

6 Forward, Comrades!

*E1

1 EA

2 E1

3 EA

4 Ibid.

5 EA

6 Swallow

7 BTS (p. 473)

8 BTS (p. 396)

9 E1

10 Ibid.

11 Barna

12 BTS (p. 546)

13 Moussinac

14 Alfred Barr Archive, New York

15 E1

16 In Close-Up by Esther Shub (Moscow, 1959)

17 Barna

18 Kino by Jay Leyda (Allen and Unwin, 1960)

19 E1

20 Moussinac

21 BBC Omnibus (1988)

22 E1

7 Poet and Peasant

*E1

1 Ibid.

2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Ibid.

5 Moussinac

6 EA

7 Moussinac

8 BTS (p. 103)

9 BTS (p. 104)

10 BTS (p. 104)

11 BTS (p. 357)

12 Nizhny

13 Nizhny (Foreword)

14 Ibid.

15 Jay Leyda Archive, New York

16 E1

17 E1

18 Kino by Jay Leyda (Allen and Unwin, 1960)

19 E1

20 Naum Kleiman to author

21 BBC Omnibus (1988)

22 E1

8 Western Approaches

*E3

1 EA

2 Moussinac

3 Barna

4 Montagu

5 Ibid.

6 EA

7 BTS (p. 327)

8 BTS (p. 324)

9 BTS (p. 600)

10 EA

11 BBC Omnibus (1988)

12 Seton

13 BTS (p. 113)

14 BTS (p. 46)

15 BTS (p. 47)

16 BTS (p. 515)

17 BTS (p. 184)

18 George Bernard Shaw Letters (Max Reinhardt, 1965)

19 BTS (p. 187)

20 Index on Censorship (1992)

21 BTS (p. 546)

22 BTS (p. 546)

23 BTS (p. 20)

24 EA

25 Swallow

26 Ibid.

27 Montagu

28 Swallow

29 BTS (p. 310)

30 BTS (p. 309)

31 BTS (p. 310)

32 BTS (p. 77)

33 Barna

34 BTS (p. 554)

35 EA

36 BTS (p. 185)

37 BTS (p. 637)

38 E2

9 A Russian in Paris

*BTS (p. 347)

1 BTS (p. 195)

2 EA

3 Moussinac

4 BTS (p. 364)

5 BTS (p. 250)

6 Film Comment (1986)

7 BTS (p. 250)

8 Montagu

9 BTS (p. 241)

10 BTS (p. 244)

11 BTS (p. 246)

12 BTS (p. 191)

13 E1

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid.

16 E3

17 BTS (p. 194)

18 BTS (p. 195)

19 BTS (p. 198)

20 BTS (p. 241)

21 BTS (p. 242)

22 BTS (p. 204)

23 BTS (p. 205)

24 BTS (p. 238)

25 BTS (p. 233)

26 BTS (p. 498)

27 BTS (p. 207)

28 The Marie Seton Archives, BFI London

29 BTS (p. 367)

30 BTS (p. 663)

31 BTS (p. 369)

32 BTS (p. 214)

33 BTS (p. 244)

34 BTS (p. 216)

35 EA

36 Swallow

37 Barna

38 BTS (p. 237)

39 BTS (p. 285)

40 Moussinac

41 Montagu

10 Hollywood and Bust

*E1

1 BTS (p. 284)

2 BTS (p. 286)

3 The Film Sense (Faber and Faber, 1943)

4 E1

5 BTS (p. 285)

6 BTS (p. 286)

7 BTS (p. 47)

8 BTS (p. 49)

9 Seton

10 Nizhny

11 EA

12 Ibid.

13 BTS (p. 327)

14 BTS (p. 328)

15 BTS (p. 322)

16 Fun in a Chinese Laundry by Josef Von Sternberg (Secker and Warburg, 1966)

17 BTS (p. 326)

18 BTS (p. 290)

19 Moussinac

20 EA

21 E3

22 Cinema: A Critical Dictionary (Secker and Warburg, 1980)

23 E3

24 BTS (p. 577)

25 Swallow

26 Ibid.

27 BTS (p. 331)

28 BTS (p. 332)

29 E3

30 Ibid.

31 My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin (Simon and Schuster, 1964)

32 BTS (p. 689)

33 BTS (p. 709)

34 Naum Kleiman to author

35 EA

36 Ibid.

37 Montagu

38 EA

39 Ibid.

40 BTS (p. 292)

41 E1

42 EA

43 Montagu

44 BTS (p. 292)

45 BTS (p. 103)

46 Montagu

47 E1

48 Montagu

49 EC

50 Memo from David O. Selznick (Viking Press, 1972)

51 Swallow

52 E1

53 Montagu

54 E1

55 EC

56 Ibid.

57 E1

58

11 Trouble in Paradise

*BTS (p. 412)

1 In Close-Up by Esther Shub (Moscow, 1959)

2 BTS (p. 372)

3 BTS (p. 411)

4 BTS (p. 421)

5 BTS (p. 8)

6 Shub, op. cit.

7 IM

8 EC

9 Upton Sinclair Archive, Bloomington, Indiana

10 BTS (p. 217)

11 BTS (p. 413)

12 E2

13 EC

14 BTS (p. 629)

15 BTS (p. 376)

16 Geduld-Gottesman

17 Ibid.

18 Ibid.

19 Ibid.

20 Ibid.

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid.

23 The Kindness of Strangers by Salka Viertel (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1961)

24 Ibid.

25 Geduld-Gottesman

26 BTS (p. 231)

27 E3

28 BTS (p. 224)

29 E1

30 EA

31 Sight & Sound (Summer 1988)

32 Geduld-Gottesman

33 Ibid.

34 Ibid.

35 BTS (p. 414)

36 EA

37 BTA (p. 579)

38 Seton

39 BTS (p. 581)

40 BTS (p. 418)

41 BTS (p. 420)

42 EC

43 BTS (p. 581)

44 The Real Tinsel, Bernard Rosenberg, Harry Silverstein (Macmillan, 1970)

45 EA

46 E3

47 EA

12 The Rules of the Game

*E3

1 EA

2 Prokofiev by David Gutman (The Alderman Press 1988)

13 ‘The Old Man’

*E3

1 Seton

2 Ibid.

3 Kino by Jay Leyda

4 The Kindness of Strangers by Salka Viertel

5 EA

6 Swallow

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid.

9 Masters of the Soviet Cinema by Herbert Marshall (London, 1984)

10 Jay Leyda Archive, New York

11 Swallow

12 Nizhny

13 E3

14 BTS (p. 34)

15 E3

16 IM

17 E3

18 Seton

19 E3

20 Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead? by Mikhail Bulgakov (Methuen, 1993)

21 IM

22 Waclaw Solski (Commentary, March 1945)

23 E3

24 Ibid.

25 Bertolt Brecht Letters (Methuen, 1981)

26 E3

27 Montagu

28 Nizhny

29 EA

30 Paul Robeson by Martin Bauml Duberman (The Bodley Head, 1989)

31 Ibid.

32 Ibid.

33 E3

34 Ibid.

35 EA

36 E3

37 Ibid.

14 Crimes and Misdemeanours

*E3

1 Leyda

2 Ibid.

3 BTS (p. 350)

4 Leyda

5 Ibid.

6 Seton

7 E3

8 Naum Kleiman to author

9 Waclaw Solski (Commentary, March 1949)

10 Swallow

11 E2

12 Moussinac

13 As told to Naum Kleiman by Pera Attasheva

14 E3

15 BTS (p. 557)

16 Leyda Archive, New York

15 Heroes and Villains

*E3

1 The Film Sense (Faber and Faber, 1943)

2 In Close-Up, Esther Shub (Moscow, 1959)

3 Leyda Archive, New York

4 IM

5 Swallow

6 Prokofiev by David Gutman (The Alderman Press, 1988)

7 E2

8 E3

9 Ibid.

10 Leyda Archive, New York

11 Leyda

12 EA

13 Ibid.

14 E3

15 BTS (p. 270)

16 E3

17 EA

16 The Earthly Tsar

*E3

1 Testimony, The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich (Hamish Hamilton, 1979)

2 E3

3 Ibid.

4 BTS (p. 663)

5 EA

6 BTS (p. 661)

7 Swallow

8 BTS (p. 671)

9 EA

10 Ibid.

11 Ibid.

12 BTS (p. 662)

13 BTS (p. 687)

14 EA

15 BTS (p. 712)

16 Barna

17 E3

18 Prokofiev by David Gutman (The Alderman Press, 1988)

19 E3

20 EA

21 Gutman as above

22 EA

23 Ibid.

24 EC

25 Partisan Review (November-December 1942)

26 EA

27 Leyda

28 Swallow

29 E3

30 BTS (p. 637)

31 E3

32 Jay Leyda Archive, New York

33 EA

34 Leyda

17 Danse Macabre

*EA

1 Ibid.

2 Ibid.

3 E3

4 IM

5 Leyda

6 Seton

7 Masters of the Soviet Cinema by Herbert Marshall (London, 1984)

8 E3

9 Ibid. (The author remarks: ‘I have taken the liberty of putting all of Eisenstein’s notes on the meeting into dialogue form, most of which was, in any event, written that way, as well as rearranging the sequence slightly where it was disjointed.’)

10 Leyda Archive, New York

11 Sight & Sound (Summer, 1988)

12 Esquire (February, 1960)

13 Screening the Sexes by Parker Tyler (Henry Holt, 1973)

14 Body Politic (July-August 1977)

15 Gay Times (September, 1988)

16 E3

17 Notes of A Soviet Actor by N. Cherkassov (Foreign Language Publishing House, 1952)

18 EA

19 Ibid.

20 E3

21 Swallow

22 Ibid.

Epilogue: Taking Tea in Eisenstein’s Brain

*BTS (p. 350)

1 Sculpting In Time by Andrei Tarkovsky (Faber and Faber, 1989)

2 Cinema: A Critical Dictionary (Secker and Warburg, 1980)