CIN201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Soviet Montage Theory

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11 May 2018

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CIN201 TUTORIAL 2.4

• A photo is an index because in order to get the image of the thing, it had to be physically

there for the light to bounce off of—causing a chemical reaction—at some point in time

• Bazin

- photography is real because, unlike painting, it doesn’t require human intervention

(he prefers a realist aesthetic)

- Solution to problem of sound  faith in the image (plastics  cinematography and

mise-en-scène) and faith in reality (long take, deep focus/staging, fluid camera

movement)

Ex. Flaherty, Murnau, von Stroheim

- Opposed to Soviet Montage because it imposes an interpretation on the viewer

- Sees the real operating in Jean Renoir’s films

“Rules of the Game” (1939) FILM:

• Parodies French High Society (French government banned it)

• Film is somewhat ridiculous

• The house they all move to is like a microcosm of society  everyone knows the rules

except the two in the position of power (and when the guy shoots the famous pilot, they

brush it off as though he thought he was shooting a poacher to maintain appearances)

• Style in relation to Bazin 

- There’s always activity happening outside/beyond the frame

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