October

BFI Film Classics

by Richard Taylor

In this book, Richard Taylor asks to what extent the film can lay claim to "authentic" history. He then examines October 's relationship to the politics of the period and explains the theory and its application, as well as placing October in the wider context of Eisenstein's career.

97 pages, Paperback

First published April 26, 2002

About the author

Richard Taylor is a professor of English and currently serves as Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University. A former Kentucky poet laureate, he is the author of six collections of poetry, two novels, and several books of non-fiction, mostly relating to Kentucky history. A former dean and teacher in the Governor's Scholars Program, he was selected as Distinguished Professor at Kentucky State University in 1992. He has won two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Al Smith Creative Writing Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. He and his wife Lizz own Poor Richard's Books in Frankfort, Kentucky.