Week 4★Nov 1st MONTAGE/EDITING

Battleship Potemkin

Reference Films

1) Battleship Potemkin, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925

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

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

subtitle)

For Week 3-6 (would illuminate several important topics; for sure, you can take it slow reading it)

Kolker R. ‘the Film Text and Film Form’, in the Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 11-29 (including an analysis of Citizen Kane)

Required Reading for Week 4:

[I made a change; am uploading here the 11th Edition of Film Art; a PW is needed to dl--if you do not know it, ask Ma Ran]

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. 2017. “The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing”, Film Art: An Introduction (11th Edition), University of Wisconsin Press, pp.216-262

NOTE: actually lots of examples are included here, although it seems that there are a lot of pages. 

Reference Reading:

 [I made a change here in only asking you to read Stam]

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