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Eisenstein and completed
Two short feature films and a short subject — Thunder Over Mexico based on the " Maguey " footage, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day respectively — were completed and released in the United States between the autumn of 1933 and early 1934.
Alexander Nevsky was the first film completed by Eisenstein in 10 years.

Eisenstein and script
Alexander Nevsky () is a 1938 historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, in association with Dmitri Vasilyev and a script co-written with Pyotr Pavlenko, who were assigned to ensure Eisenstein did not stray into " formalism " and to facilitate shooting on a reasonable timetable.

Eisenstein and by
Historian Elizabeth Eisenstein claimed that the fall of Constantinople in 1453 had threatened the importance and survival of Greek scholarship, but publications such as those by the Aldine Press secured it.
He also began studying film theory by reading books about other famous directors, such as Sergei Eisenstein along with how-to books about the craft of film making.
Eisenstein himself, however, was accused by the Soviet authorities under Joseph Stalin of " formalist error ," of highlighting form as a thing of beauty instead of portraying the worker nobly.
He was survived by Rivka and his daughters Dr. Judith Eisenstein, Hadassah Musher, Dr. Naomi Wenner and Selma Jaffe-Goldman.
The development of Russian cinema in the 1920s by such filmmakers as Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein saw considerable progress in the use of the motion picture as a propaganda tool, yet it also served to develop the art of moviemaking.
Eisenstein was heavily influenced by the ideology of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, which results in it providing better insight into the mindset of the later revolution than that which it depicted.
Reconstructionism was developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan ( 1881 – 1983 ) and his son-in-law, Rabbi Ira Eisenstein ( 1906 – 2001 ), over a period of time spanning from the late 1920s to the 1940s.
* Strike ( film ), 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein
In 1923 Eisenstein began his career as a theorist, by writing The Montage of Attractions for LEF.
In the autumn of 1928, with October still under fire in many Soviet quarters, Eisenstein left the Soviet Union for a tour of Europe, accompanied by his perennial film collaborator Grigori Aleksandrov and cinematographer Eduard Tisse.
In 1929, in Switzerland, Eisenstein supervised an educational documentary about abortion directed by Tissé entitled Frauennot-Frauenglück.
Eisenstein proposed a biography of munitions tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff and a film version of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, and more fully developed plans for a film of Sutter's Gold by Jack London, but on all accounts failed to impress the studio's producers.
On October 23, 1930, by " mutual consent ," Paramount and Eisenstein declared their contract null and void, and the Eisenstein party were treated to return tickets to Moscow at Paramount's expense.
Sinclair's works had been accepted by and were widely read in the USSR, and were known to Eisenstein.
The trip to Mexico was for Eisenstein to make a film produced by Sinclair and his wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, and three other investors organized as the " Mexican Film Trust ".
" The contract also stipulated that the film would be " non-political ," that immediately available funding came from Mrs. Sinclair in an amount of " not less than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ," that the shooting schedule amounted to " a period of from three to four months ," and most importantly that " Eisenstein furthermore agrees that all pictures made or directed by him in Mexico, all negative film and positive prints, and all story and ideas embodied in said Mexican picture, will be the property of Mrs. Sinclair ..." A codicil to the contract, dated December 1, allowed that the " Soviet Government may have the film free for showing inside the U. S. S. R ." Reportedly, it was verbally clarified that the expectation was for a finished film of about an hour's duration.
By 4 December 1930, Eisenstein was en route to Mexico by train, accompanied by Aleksandrov and Tisse.
Eisenstein never saw any of the Sinclair-Lesser films, nor a later effort by his first biographer, Marie Seton, called Time in the Sun.
Even though Soviet film executive Boris Shumyatsky encouraged Sinclair in undermining Eisenstein it was derailed not as much as Bezhin Meadow by the Soviet film industry, but by its American backers.

Eisenstein and October
However, after he chanced to see Sergei Eisenstein ’ s October, which impressed him profoundly, particularly the quality of editing in the movie, Coppola decided that he would not go into theater but would opt for cinema.
But it was mostly his international critical renown which enabled Eisenstein to direct October ( aka Ten Days That Shook The World ) as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917, and then The General Line ( aka Old and New ).
** Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures ; they part ways by October.
October: Ten Days That Shook the World (; ) is a Soviet silent film premiered in 1928 by Sergei Eisenstein, sometimes referred to simply as October in English.
Eisenstein's montage experiments met with official disapproval ; the authorities complained that October was unintelligible to the masses, and Eisenstein was attacked — for neither the first time nor the last — for excessive " formalism ".
The international critical renown that Eisenstein garnered from this film enabled the Russian filmmaker to direct October ( aka Ten Days That Shook The World ) as part of a grand tenth anniversary celebration of the October Revolution of 1917, and then The General Line ( aka Old and New ).
Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein ( 16 April 1823 – 11 October 1852 ) was a German mathematician.
Historian Peter Kenez has noted the heavy influence of the Proletkult ethic in the work of pioneer Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, director of the classic films Strike ( 1925 ), The Battleship Potemkin ( 1926 ), and October: Ten Days That Shook the World ( 1927 ):

Eisenstein and 1930
In 1930 the esteemed Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein went to the United States with fellow director Grigori Aleksandrov to study Hollywood ’ s filmmaking process.
* Sergei Eisenstein prepared a screenplay in the late 1920s which he hoped to have produced by Paramount or by Charlie Chaplin during Eisenstein's stay in Hollywood in 1930.
He wrote articles on " Modern Imagery ", " Avant-garde Cinema " ( 1929, issue 7 ), " Pygmalion and the Sphinx " ( 1930, issue 1 ), and Sergei Eisenstein, the Soviet filmmaker, on his film titled The General Line ( 1930, issue 4 ).

Eisenstein and found
For Eisenstein, however, it was also an opportunity to see landscapes and cultures outside those found within the Soviet Union.
His first book on film, Der Sichtbare Mensch ( The Visible Man ) ( 1924 ), helped found the German " film as a language " theory, which also exerted an influence on Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin.
The ethic of Proletkult is found in the early cinematic works of Sergei Eisenstein.
A dramatized account of his life, in which he is depicted as the second most powerful aristocrat in Russia, only after the Tsar, who is constantly put under pressure by boyars that want to make him revolt against the imperial authority at Moscow, can be found in the epic work of Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible.

Eisenstein and themselves
Eisenstein hoped to pressure the Sinclairs to insinuate themselves between him and Stalin, so Eisenstein could finish the film in his own way.
Such theorists ( Eisenstein 1979, Hartmann 1979 & 1981, Messerschmidt 1986, Currie 1989 ) accept that a patriarchal society constrains women ’ s roles and their view of themselves but that this patriarchy is the result not of male aggression but of the mode of capitalist production.

Eisenstein and Pease
Pease, an anti-communist, mounted a public campaign against Eisenstein.

Eisenstein and president
* In The New Twilight Zone episode Lost and Found and the Phyllis Eisenstein 1978 short story of the same title upon which it was based, a woman named Jenny Templeton ( Akosua Busia ) will someday be elected the first president of Earth, presumably in the 21st century and will eventually be called " The Great Peacemaker ".
In 1981, Eisenstein, the founding president, retired, succeeded by Ira Silverman ( 1981 – 86 ).
A former president of the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly of America, Rabbi Eisenstein served as president of the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation from 1959 to 1970.

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