314 T1 #6 Soviet films
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- who was kuleshov
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- filmmaker, theorist, teacher
- film is not theater
- makes the kuleshov workshop - kuleshov key theories?
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- montage (creative editing)
- shot is the basic unit of film
- creating meaning from how shots go together -
what is creative geography
whats the term for this -
space can be manipulated to create a story world (montage can create place/object/person that does not exist)
diegesis - what is the kuleshov effect?
- 2 images with different meanings placed side by side create a new meaning
- what was the kuleshov experiment?
- placing image of a man with the same expressionnext to different images, you read different things
- eisenstein
- filmmaker/theorist, student of kuleshov
- what were eistenstein's influences
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1. kuleshov
2. japanese calligraphy
3. dialectical method - how has japanese calligraphy influenced eisenstein
- how two symbols (different ideas) combine to indicate a different word
- what is eistenstein's dialectical method?
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dialectic = collision of opposites
influenced by hegel and marx
thesis + antithesis -> synthesis - how did kuleshov influence eisenstein
- montage ideas (teacher kuleshov workshop)
- what is the textbook of the kuleshov workship
- intolerance
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significance of strike clip
d.? -
the workers are montaged next to cows being slaughtered (saying that the workers are treated as chattel)
eisenstein -
significance of october clip
d.? -
Kerensky is about to take office, montaged next to a mechanical peacock to imply vanity and arrogance
eisenstein - eisenstein's aesthetic
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revolutionary (anti borgeois)
- no studio shooting
- collective hero
- class system - eisenstein's aesthetic (4)
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- revolutionary (anti-bourgeois)
- compositional motifs
- expanded time
- collision of opposites - how was eisenstein revolutionary
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- no studio shooting
- collective hero
- non-actors -
eisenstein: why is there no individual hero
what is there instead -
appointing a hero makes that person better than everyone else
collective hero - example of the collective hero
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strike (the workers)
there is no hierarchy of characters - why did eisenstein not use pro actors
- let the people tell their own stories
- eisenstein's motifs and what they mean
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the circle: the collective, the proletarian circle, ideal
the diagonal line: tension, energy, action -
where does eisenstein use the circle as a compositional motif
d.? -
strike: circles in abandoned railroad wheel. where they put flyers secretly (on wheel. also 3 workers superimposed on the wheel
eisenstein - how are diagonals used as compositional motifs
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strike: workers congregating, guy in front of the diagonal ropes
alexander nevsky - guy going into battle holds the spear at a diagonal
october: Lenin, the hero is leaning out with a flag at a diagonal - how does eisenstein play with narrative time
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expand time:
repeated action (for emotional emphasis)
In October, the doors open for Kerensky 3 times.
In Battleship Potemkin, the woman who falls and accidentally pushes her baby's carriage down the stairs falls several times
Battleship Potempkin - the coassack makes the slashing move 3 times -
how does kerensky give you vital details
examples -
vivid details (close shots), zooming in on an element
october: kerensky putting on gloves, gloves, leather boots, crest of the czar
battleship potemkin: the woman shot is shown from 4 different shots - how is eisenstein's narrative economy different
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- time is extended
- dwg decreased the length of shots to create suspense
- shots are short but show you details and repetition
- emotional time is longer than clock - how did eisenstein use collision of opposites?
- collides opposing sections
- flaw of eisenstein's dialectical Montage
- Misreading (if you have different interpretation of an image). also you have to read things exactly ("elitist cinema")
- who was pudovkin
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- more traditional student in kuleshov's workshop
- montage as linkage (relational editing using ideas, words, themes, shapes) of images
- book: Film Technique - what was relational editing in m
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- the shape of the murderer leaning over elsie is the same as the hunched shape of the mom in the next shot (graphically matched)
- head guy makes the sweepign motion with the hand. (both good and bad guy's head, they are having the same meeting) -
signif of clip chinatown
d.? -
polanski
(relational editing): makes the transition fro night to morning
linked by concept time, object watch, shape circle in watch, tire, white circles - what is creative geography
- creation of a place or person or object that doesn't exist
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signif of the el mariachi clip
d.? -
creating the scene when the people were never in the same room
robert rodriguez -
signif of malcolm x
d.? -
3 shots of them hugging
spike lee