A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood

Zoe Beloff 

2016, 152 pages, Hardcover

Zoe Beloff's book A World Redrawn is part of a larger exhibition of archival objects, films, architectural models and drawings (first displayed at the CUNY James Gallery in 2015), which takes up the tantalizing prospect of Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht living and working in the seat of American consumerist spectacle. Arriving in Hollywood independently for periods in the 1930s and 40s, Eisenstein and Brecht worked on screenplays and treatments for studio films that were never developed, leaving behind notes and fragments for unrealized projects that Beloff uses as points of departure for her own creative and critical engagement.