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The History of Cutting - The Soviet Theory of Montage

John Hess goes far beyond the textbook summary of Soviet montage, walking through Kuleshov's experiments and Eisenstein's actual theoretical writing in detail. The advanced companion piece to the Crash Course montage episode.

Filmmaker IQ · 22 min · Advanced · HIS · Film History · 2014

What you take away

Eisenstein saw montage as collision, not just connection, between two ideas.

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