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Revision as of 17:53, 17 April 2013
Russian Revolution
- 1917: Socialist/Marxist revolution
- Overthrew czarist government
- Great experimentation in the arts
- 1934: Josef Stalin, Socialist Realism
Russian Formalism
- Literary criticism: original source of formalism
- Viktor Shklovsky
- "Art as Technique"
- Literature's essence
- Make familiar seem strange
- Ostranenie
- "Art as Technique"
- Viktor Shklovsky
Russian Filmmakers Influenced by Formalism
- Lev Kuleshov
- Friend of Shklovsky's
- 1st film theorist
Created first film school
- Essence of cinema?
- Montage
- Alternative meanings:
- French Montage = editing
- U.S. Classical Montage = compressed presentation of information
- Alternative meanings:
- Kuleshov's Montage
- Editing constructs meaning
- As in the "Kuleshov Experiment"
- As in "creative geography"
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Rejected "construction"
- Advocated collision in montage
- Five Methods of Montage
- Metric
- Rhythmic
- Tonal
- Overtonal
- Intellectual