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Soviet Montage

A topic within Film History, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Film & Moving Image.

Reading on Soviet Montage

2

2 works

Paper1972

The Idea of Montage in Soviet Art and Film

David Bordwell

Argues Soviet montage theory was never a single unified doctrine but a contested set of positions — Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov and Kuleshov each grounding editing's power in a different account of perception and meaning, borrowed from rival Constructivist and Formalist theories of art.

Book1984

Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov

Argues the camera's mechanical eye can perceive truths about the world invisible to the unaided human eye, and calls for a cinema built entirely from documentary fragments rather than staged fiction.

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