1920s Michelle Tvete Spring 2013
BORN IN REVOLUTION--1917
KULESHOV’S WORKSHOP
SOVIET MONTAGE FILMS Characters 1) Represent a certain class 2) Group important NOT individual
SOVIET MONTAGE FILMS Plot Often focuses on strike or battle in a revolution
SOVIET MONTAGE FILMS FOCUS: Editing To create emotional response in the audience
EISENSTEIN
Focus: CONFLICT between images— not continuity or images themselves
EISENSTEIN CONFLICT
EISENSTEIN Dialectical Thesis + Antithesis=Synthesis = emotion or concept
EISENSTEIN The Lions sequence of The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
EISENSTEIN The Lions sequence of The Battleship Potemkin (1925) Nondiegetic
EISENSTEIN The Odessa Steps sequence of The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Alfred Hitchcock’s Shower Scene from Psycho (1960) montage 3 minutes 50 cuts extreme close-ups few medium shots 7 days to shoot music: all strings— “The Murder” INFLUENCE ON FILM