A world redrawn : Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood / edited by Zoe Beloff with essays by Hannah Frank and Esther Leslie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beloff, Zoe, editor.

Leslie, Esther, 1964- writer of supplementary content.

Frank, Hannah, writer of supplementary content.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--20th century.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948.

Eisenstein, Sergei.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.

Brecht, Bertolt.

United States.

Physical Description:

150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Christine Burgin, 2016.

Summary:

A World Redrawn' is an exploration by the artist Zoe Beloff of Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht's experiences in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s, what their time in Hollywood meant to them then and what it might mean to us now. Beloff focuses on two unrealized films written during this time: 'Glass House' by Eisenstein and 'A Model Family' by Brecht. The book reproduces many important and little-known documents from the period, including a large selection of previously unpublished drawings by Eisenstein discovered by Beloff in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow and facsimile reproductions of the writings of Eisenstein and Brecht as they contemplate the politics and culture of Hollywood. Beloff created three films in connection with this project and the book includes stills and screenplays for these projects and links so that the films can be watched online. Two scholarly essays have been commissioned for this project: an essay by Hannah Frank on the affinities of American and Soviet animation during this period and a meditation on the role of laughter in the work of Bertolt Brecht by the Walter Benjamin scholar Esther Leslie.

Contents:

A world redrawn / Zoe Beloff

Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood: Two marxists in Hollywood, 2015 / Zoe Beloff ; Eisenstein in Hollywood, Close up, August 1930 / Clifford Howard

Glass house: Glass house, 1926-1947 / Sergei Eisenstein ; Glass house, 2014 / Zoe Beloff ; The potential of Pochta : unlikely affinities between American and Soviet animation, 1929-1948 / Hannah Frank

A model family in a model home: A model family, 1941 / Bertolt Brecht ; A model family in a model home, Life, September 15, 1941 / photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt ; A model family in a model home, 2015 / Zoe Beloff ; Those in glass houses laugh / Esther Leslie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780977869688

0977869687

OCLC:

960724964