MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Vsevolod Pudovkin
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Week 11: lecture #10 tuesday, march 17, 2015. Odessa steps from battleship potemkin, directed by sergei eisenstein (1925) Eisenstein wrote that montage is the nerve of cinema and that to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema . Montage, he wrote, is an idea that arises from the collision of independent shots; each sequential element is perceived not next to the other, but on top of the other . Trying it to make it seamless when telling a story. Mediation is the representation of an object a thing, an idea or any communicatory act hereby the object is structured and presented by some intervening medium. Example: the telephone mediates the human voice. Video: the untouchables, directed by brian de palma (1987) Some gun shot and woman reaching for sth. The scene goes into silent movie mode. The naked gun 33 1/3, directed by peter segal (1994) Again with the carriage falling down stairs.
