ID: 8989  -  Francesca De Ruggieri  -  Bari Type: Text Format: Medium: Article Extent: 3 pp Identifier: Source: Title: Ejzenstejn in Hollywood Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Role: Name: Created: Date: Issued in/on: 1930 Language: English Rights: Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Close Up, VII, 2, 1930 Coverage: Place: United States of America Time: 1930 Description: Article about Ejzenstejn in the USA Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Subjects: Arti/Facts Subjects: Wo/Men Keywords: Hollywood Keywords: USSR Keywords: cinema Keywords: Eisenstein, Sergei Michailovich Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Hollywood) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, USSR) Query Subject+Keyword: (Arti/Facts, cinema) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Eisenstein, Sergei Michailovich) Comment: C. Howard writes: What will Eisenstein do to Hollywood? Or, what will Hollywood do to Eisenstein? That the two should be brought into an attempted confraternity is a circumstance of uncommon moment. An irresistible force meeting an immovable body. of all persons in the world, Hollywood has opened its gates to Eisenstein. The most dynamic individualist in the history of motion picture. The personification of sublimated cinematic art. The most puissant protagonist of social education by means of the screen. In short, the embodiement of every fundamental taboo of Hollywood. And Eisenstein, on his part, has come to Hollywood, of all places in the world the least in accord with his ideals and purposes and philosophy. A strange paradox, indeed. Eisenstein, the Russian socialist, an impregnable individualist. Hollywood, giant offspring of capitalism and commercialism, the subjugator of the individualist and enforcing system of collectivism beyond anything yet attained in communistic Russia. E