{"product_id":"2026100007184-secondhand-s-m-eisensteins-screenplay-ivan-the-terrible","title":"S. M. Eisenstein's Screenplay: Ivan The Terrible","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew artistic visions have captured the brutal grandeur of Russian history as powerfully as Sergei Eisenstein's monumental two-part film epic, and this published screenplay for Ivan the Terrible allows readers to experience that genius on the page. The script chronicles the life of Ivan IV of Russia — the sixteenth-century Tsar who unified a fractured nation through iron will and savage cruelty — charting his rise to absolute power, his paranoid isolation, and his relentless campaign against the boyar nobility who threatened his reign. Written with the precise visual grammar of a master filmmaker, the text reads as both dramatic literature and a detailed cinematic blueprint, replete with Eisenstein's sweeping staging directions that conjure images of Byzantine grandeur and political terror.\n\nBeyond its value as a historical document, this screenplay stands as a landmark of 20th-century artistic expression, composed during Stalin's Soviet Union in circumstances laden with political peril — Eisenstein himself faced censure over the film's unflattering parallels to contemporary power. The work illuminates the intersection of art and autocracy, presenting a portrait of tyranny that is simultaneously a meditation on loneliness and the corrupting weight of absolute authority. Scholars of film history, Russian culture, and political drama will find it an indispensable text — and those encountering it for the first time may be surprised by how urgently its themes resonate today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130937712859,"sku":"2026100007184-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ca6f531f-0807-43e7-b7a3-c3a79f72be14.png?v=1786592832","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007184-secondhand-s-m-eisensteins-screenplay-ivan-the-terrible","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}