Fil'my Sergeya Eyzenshteyna «Bronenosets "Potemkin"» i «Ivan Groznyy», kotorym posvyashcheny dva pervykh razdela etoy knigi, voshli v sokrovishchnitsu mirovogo kino - o nikh napisano mnozhestvo knig i statey na raznykh yazykakh. O romane Aleksandra Sergeyevicha Pushkina «Yevgeniy Onegin» - yego avtor analiziruyet v tret'yey glave - sushchestvuyet tselaya biblioteka issledovaniy i kommentariyev. Kinoved Naum Kleyman rabotal nad sobrannymi v izdanii analiticheskimi etyudami na protyazhenii pyati desyatiletiy. Uchas' u predshestvuyushchikh i sovremennykh issledovateley, on v to zhe vremya staralsya obrashchat'sya napryamuyu k tekstam klassicheskikh proizvedeniy - ne tol'ko k zavershennym, no i k chernovym variantam, a takzhe k okruzhayushchim ikh dokumentam i svidetel'stvam. Vnimatel'noye, nepredubezhdennoye i doveritel'noye otnosheniye k samim klassikam - vmeste s nashim istoricheskim opytom - mozhet, po ubezhdeniyu avtora, obespechit' novoye, inogda neprivychnoye prochteniye prorocheskikh smyslov i esteticheskikh otkrytiy v, kazalos' by, znakomykh tvoreniyakh