 The belief that a still, highly composed, and individuated shot marked cinema's artistic significance was an affront to the dialectical method.That individual directors could compose and produce films by themselves (at least in terms of credit and authorship) made impossible the collectivization of filmmaking.Eisenstein's later work ("Alexander Nevsky" [1938] and "Ivan the Terrible" [1944-1946]), would undercut his earlier film's appeal to masses by locating the narrative on a single individual.