CTCS 473 Lecture 4: CTCS 473 Lecture 4
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Ontology and epistemology: philosophical inquiry, ontology existence, trying to theorize being , existence, epistemology theorizing about knowledge. Formalist film theories (frame) focus on alteration and manipulation of filmic perception, mostly by montage and framing. Sergei eisenstein, vsevolod pudovkin, dziga vertov (russian montage theorists) The evolution of the language of cinema by andr bazin: Questions whether the years 1928-30 gave rise to a new form of cinema. Two broad and opposing trends two categories . There were directors who put their faith in the image. Image meaning everything that the representation on the screen adds to the object there represented those who put their faith in reality. Those that relate to the plastics of the image. Plastics are the staging, mise-en-scene, makeup, etc. Those that relate to the resources of montage. Montage gave birth to film as an art, setting it apart from photography and language. Use of montage an be invisible types of montage:
