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Lesson 5Russian Montage

Subject:understanding cinema

Faculty Name:Amol Jadhav

Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies (dgmcms.org.in)

Batch(BA FTNP class of

2017)

Year (FY)

India’s premier M-school


+ Montage To combine, to arrange and to re-iterate.

1917 October revolution

“Cinema is an important art for us. The saga of humanity will be narrated through the pictures. Heroes will be made. It will not challenge any religion or creed. It will embrace humanity and relations”- Anatoly Luncharsky

“A medium that is blessed with mysterious pace”- Leo Tolstoy

Cine Laboratory, Moskwa (1919)

Mayoski, Tarkovaski, Bloke

Lev kuleshov, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin


+Lev Kuleshov Moscow Cine Lab

Production designer/ artist

Cinema in Space and Time

Khakhlova and Albyenski

Mustorg Store- Moskwa river- Prichistnyeski square- Gogol-

Close shot- pan- Washington DC- Moscow Cathedral

Mozhukhin

SHOT and SHOOTING

D. W. Griffith


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+Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein Red Army and Pratikult (1918)

Montage

Strike (1924) and Battlehip Potempkin (1925)

Intellectual Montage

Feelings, Emotions, Conceptions, Thoughts, Images and Symbols… and hence Locations, costumes, characters, identities CONFLICTING/ COLLIDING

Mise-en-scene

October (1927)


+Vsevolod Pudovkin D. W. Griffith and Editing

Mother (1925)

Allegro (fast), Presto ( Accelearted) andAdagjio (slow)

Fabula and Suzhyet

Personalized Montage

Time and Space

End of St. Petersberg (1927), Storm over Asia (1928) and The Desserter (1933)

Film technique and Film Acting


+Alexander Dovzhenko Metaphoric Montage

Earth (1930)

Simyone- farm- Apple county- sunflowers- apples-villagers

Wasil- death- young wife- Christ- father- horses-labor pain- Wasil’s funeral- songs of revolution


+Dziga Vertov Man with the Movie Camera (1928)

“This is my Eye… an eye of the machine”

Realism and Socialism

Politics and Cinema

Theorization and Criticism


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