Wu believes that thishistoricaltrajectoryhasnowwhiplashedintoa grossly excessive demand for thechic, the new, andnot tomention the expensive aesthetic of contemporary, avant-gardedesign.
The experience of working with Meyerhold had decisively shaped Eisenstein's own artistic ideas, convincing him that theatre and cinema should take their place among the modern, and indeed the avant-garde arts, whose stagecraft and visual design needed to break decisively with 19th-century realism.