This document provides an overview of Russian Montage cinema and some of its key figures. It discusses how montage aims to combine and arrange shots to reiterate ideas. It then profiles several pioneering Soviet filmmakers like Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov who developed montage techniques. Eisenstein is noted for his use of intellectual montage to convey conflicting ideas through colliding images. Pudovkin studied Griffith's editing and developed techniques like allegro and adagio cutting. Vertov created the documentary Man with a Movie Camera to show "an eye of the machine" with a realistic, socialist viewpoint.

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Lesson 5
Russian Montage
Subject:
understanding
cinema
Faculty Name:
Amol Jadhav
Batch
(BA FTNP class of 2017)
Year (FY)
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Deviprasad Goenka Management College of Media Studies (dgmcms.org.in)

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 To combine, to arrange and to re-iterate.
 1917 October revolution
 “Cinema is an important art for us. The saga of
humanity will be narrated through the pictures.
Heroes will be made. It will not challenge any religion or
creed. It will embrace humanity and relations”- Anatoly
Luncharsky
 “A medium that is blessed with mysterious pace”- Leo Tolstoy
 Cine Laboratory, Moskwa (1919)
 Mayoski, Tarkovaski, Bloke
 Lev kuleshov, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Vsevolod
Pudovkin

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Lev Kuleshov
 Moscow Cine Lab
 Production designer/ artist
 Cinema in Space and Time
 Khakhlova and Albyenski
 Mustorg Store- Moskwa river- Prichistnyeski square- Gogol-
Close shot- pan- Washington DC- Moscow Cathedral
 Mozhukhin
 SHOT and SHOOTING
 D. W. Griffith

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Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
 Red Army and Pratikult (1918)
 Montage
 Strike (1924) and Battlehip Potempkin (1925)
 Intellectual Montage
 Feelings, Emotions, Conceptions, Thoughts, Images and
Symbols… and hence Locations, costumes, characters,
identities CONFLICTING/ COLLIDING
 Mise-en-scene
 October (1927)

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Vsevolod Pudovkin
 D. W. Griffith and Editing
 Mother (1925)
 Allegro (fast), Presto ( Accelearted) and
Adagjio (slow)
 Fabula and Suzhyet
 Personalized Montage
 Time and Space
 End of St. Petersberg (1927), Storm over Asia (1928) and The
Desserter (1933)
 Film technique and Film Acting

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Alexander Dovzhenko
 Metaphoric Montage
 Earth (1930)
 Simyone- farm- Apple county- sunflowers- apples-villagers
 Wasil- death- young wife- Christ- father- horses-labor
pain- Wasil’s funeral- songs of revolution

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Dziga Vertov
 Man with the Movie Camera (1928)
 “This is my Eye… an eye of the machine”
 Realism and Socialism
 Politics and Cinema
 Theorization and Criticism

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