Week 5

Question 0

1920 Russian developed

Answer 0

Own style of editing,based on discontinuity

Call it soviet montage practise. (Not necessarily sequential narrative like in us)

Question 1

1917 revolution
Today looking at contrasting ussr movement in art film,
Early stage of russiaN film. Up to 1920

Answer 1

Art cinema tool of revolution, promote ideas, wide head of cinema,
Lennon, founded state school of cinematography in Moscow,

Note institutional difference, vs business industry model. Difference betweeen us.

First ever film school.
Ounces in film theory. Idea driven, not $ or entertainment so.

So school, state gov. Run, through committees.
Decided appro portait content.

Question 2

Mules hoc effect

Answer 2

Effect of discontinuity,
Viewing perception experiments based. Finding how people connect images, interpret emotions.

Juxtapose images influence interpret one image in context to the other.

Question 3

What are they focused on in early society from

Answer 3

How to combine pieces into a whole
Cumulative-> to whole

Or what we call a synthetic idea (vs analytic)

Question 4

1924 committed I d not intervene

Answer 4

For stylistic practis,
Non issue of experimental vs formal for at least a decade!
Ignition
In. Silent era remember.

Question 5

Eisenstein director

Answer 5

Griffith, lang influence. Discontinuous match as much a possible.
Used musical terms in theoretical papers.

Ex. Of visual rhythms (editing)
Odes is steps sequence. 1925
Discontinuity. Rhythmic editing cumulate, synthetic

Guns theaters lions,

Traveled to us and Mexico.
Works in Hollywood. Paramount than independant sponsor, sinclaire . Personal conflicts.
Homosexual,.
Forced back home to oppression. Big ideas could not materialize.

Question 6

Jump cut

Answer 6

Editing technique, discontinue in space.

Question 7

Tempo editingq

Answer 7

Pulse and neat of the frames and movement in frames.

Question 8

Content and form is emotional

Answer 8

Abstract, discontinuous editing. Disorienting.

Question 9

Creating of meaning term

Answer 9

Intellectually l (vertical) montage

Question 10

1928 October film ex.

Period of

Answer 10

Radical experimentation. Purse cinematic expression. I liken it to contemporary classical music.

Question 11

What is a dialectical principle

Answer 11

He’s is and antithesis, leading to clash dualist if, leading to synthesis,
Sonata form is an sample, or the October movie. But it was too experimental. Informs Marxism oppression.

Question 12

Montage style

Answer 12

Less emphasis chRcter and psychology. 
More about collective forces. Cumulative, rigid force. 
Social rather than individual psych. 
Contrast to us
Getting to Stalin power.

Question 13

Stalin power

Answer 13

Lot more oppressiveness.
Experimentalism foota go.
Through committee had to do changes .

Question 14

1935 Eisenstein gets

Answer 14

Official attacks on his work. Oppression. Problem of committees approval.
1937 conference condemnation. 1938, reconsider, Stalin requests new film to be producesd
Strong patriotic propaganda film against Germans.

Question 15

Alexander Nevsky

Answer 15

First Eisenstein sound film.
Least freedom,

Completely different context,
Looked at limits due to market, now political.

Worked with Prokofiev.

Sound era, not montage period (1924-1930)
More conservative. Shyness, discontinuity, abstract graphic compositions still part of language.
Dif. ‘S how he worked with Eisenstein. Music so imp. Even coming first. More musical knowledge by director.
Composer brought into production much earlier. (Long term collaboration in mproudction phase.

Question 16

Prokofiev interred in

Answer 16

Studio recording, 
Mixing mixing, filtering. 
Influential action film score. 
Technology did not allow good translation. 
Cantata, stands on its own