HISTART 2901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Execution By Firing Squad, Filipp Golikov, Multiple Exposure
23 Mar 2017
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The silent era and the development of narrative form: 1913-1925: the soviet union: eisenstein and the theory of montage. Man reaching the breaking point by his arms coming down and smashing the plate. Shown to us twice: slows down the action. Comes up through the hatch: ancient greek tragic drama. In their plays, they used something called the deus ex machina--any time they wanted a god to appear, he would show up anywhere, almost like a machine. The captain makes his appearance in this theatrical way. Stroking the part of his uniform that would be used to sharpen his sword. Hanging by ship"s mast: how sailors were punished. Through double exposure, we see the empty mast and then bodies hanging--we fate. see the sailors" imagining their fate. The final gesture of solidarity on behalf of the sailors against the officers: deck). His fate is that of what was feared.
