Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Camera Angle, Defamiliarization, Dziga Vertov

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The russian revolution: a) marxism and dialectics , b) formalism and constructivist art. The kuleshov effect: director/important film maker. Eisenstein"s theory of montage: key theme for this unit. Film theory from cinema"s origins to the 1960s can be divided in two camps (or paradigms ): 1. Both theories try to answer the question what is cinema? by analyzing what is specific to the medium. Realism: stresses the mechanical, recording nature of cinema and the connection between the camera and the world (e. g. andre bazin: cinema as a window on to reality. Formalism: emphasizes the formal properties of cinema that shape filmmaking and our responses (e. g. sergei eisenstein: cinema as a canvas that shapes/actively constructs reality, not recording, but creating & constructing artificial, new reality. Political and economic situation in russia before the revolution: autocratic rule of the czars (russian monarchs, 5% of the population were nobles who owned most of the land (and until 1861 the peasants)

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