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Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible” in Stalin’s Russia

by Joan Neuberger At the beginning of 1941, Sergei Eisenstein was feeling defeated. Three years had passed since he had completed a film and, on January 2, the great Russian film maker confided to his diary that he felt like his broken-down car, lethargic and depressed. A few days earlier, tired of waiting for the […]

Films on Migration, Exile, and Forced Displacement

Almost as soon as people became human they went on the move and forced others to move to serve their own ends. Possibly even earlier, people began to tell stories. In the twentieth century, people all over the world told their stories about leaving home and going to live among strangers on film. How can these stories […]

Notes From the Field: Trinity College, Cambridge and the Accidents of Research

I was reminded of the accidents of research recently as I was dining at High Table in Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

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