WEEK 4/October 27th MONTAGE/EDITING

Reference Film 1) Battleship Potemkin, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgWoSHUn8c]

Film 2) Man with a Movie Camera, Dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYZ5847FiI]

NOTE: NO in-class screenings (both available at YouTube with English subtitle)

Required Readings:

Bordwell, David. “The Idea of Montage in Soviet Art and Film”, Cinema Journal, Vol. 11,No.2 Spring 1972, p9-17

【click HERE】

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. 2010. “the Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing”, Film Art: an Introduction (10th Edition), University Of Wisconsin Press, 218-265
[click HERE]

Stam, Robert. 2000. “the Soviet Montage-Theorists” & “Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School”, Film Theory: an Introduction, Blackwell Publishing, 37-55

[click HERE]

Reference Reading:

Eisenstein, Sergei. 2011. “The Dramaturgy of Film Form.” In Critical Visions In Film Theory: Classic And Contemporary Readings, eds. Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White with Meta Mazaj, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 262-279 [click HERE]

                       ------. “Montage of Attractions: For ‘Enough Stupidity in Every

Wiseman’”, trans. Daniel Gerould, the Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 18, No. 1, Popular Entertainments (Mar., 1974), p. 77-85 [click HERE]