Sergei Eisenstein

When comparing Ballad of a Solider directed by Grigoriy Chukhray with earlier works such as Battleship Potemkin by director Sergei M. Eisenstein and Man with a Movie Camera directed by Dziga Vertov, one should feel obligated to mention similarities in the story, theme, style and, technique, as well as their differences. Their execution of ideas as well as their artistic imprint forever changes how we view modern day cinema. Battleship Potemkin follows a crew of a naval ship, which has been mistreated

In Gunning’s theory, the term “attractions” comes from the young Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein and his attempt to find a new model and mode of analysis for the theater (Eisenstein, 1970). In Gerould’s (Gerould, 1974) Einstein Montage of Attractions he states: An attraction aggressively subjected the spectator to “sensual or psychological impact.” According to Eisenstein, theater should consist of a montage of such attractions, creating a relation to the spectator entirely different from his absorption

Eisenstein and Vertov are two filmmakers/theorist that made films to illustrate and emphasize their film theories. One of Eisenstein’s theories is that film should have a dialectic approach to create conflict. Furthermore, he states that conflict will spark active thinking in the spectator 's mind. Another theory from Eisenstein is the methods of montage. There are five methods, but the one he highlights the most is the intellectual montage, which helps create an idea through juxtaposition to make

Tsar After 1905 It would be true to say that the Tsar remained unscathed after 1905, as he remained on the throne until 1917. However, it would also be true to say that the Tsar was permanently damaged by the 1905 revolution. Before 1905, there was much unrest and discontent. Famines in 1897, 1898 and 1901, made the already struggling countryside even worse, and the usually loyal peasantry held uprisings in two provinces in 1902. The Russo-Japanese war caused

From 1924 to 1930, Soviet Russia experienced transformations that not only shaped the nation’s political perspective, but also cultivated a name for itself within the arts. War in combination with the demand for social justice and change encouraged people toward creative expression. Dziga Vertov was one of the prominent figures in Russia during this time. He was a documentarian that focused on depicting the highest form of reality in film. Vertov believed the only way to convey the highest form of

Robert Drew can easily be described as one well known filmmaker of the cinema verite genre. Drew formed his own production company, Drew’s Associates, in 1960. Drew, as well as Richard Leacock, were both considered the first people for making the cinema methods what they became today. The three key areas of Drew’s philosophy for cinema verite is “knowledge, journalism, and storytelling”, which lead to him to fund his own company once he had enough recognition and a team (Levin 1/25). Drew’s Associates

In “A Man with a Movie Camera,” Vertov does not portray the city of Moscow in a realistic manner, but rather with the use of cinematic techniques and editing. His intention was to capture and synchronize the worker with the mechanical in a joyful relationship. The film emphasizes that work is joyful and uses imagery to display the rhythm of the workers and the machines. An example of this “joyful” work can be seen in the emotional expression of a woman working at a machine folding cigarette boxes

1. The French term montage means to assemble or put together and is a synonym for the term editing. Montage was developed by a Soviet filmmaker. The word editing also means put together or join one shot with another one. Both terms are part of the film industry and refer to fixing the film through cutting out parts and splicing the new ends together to create a finished product. 2. The term jump cut means cutting together two discontinuous points of a continuous action without changing the set up

This review paper focuses on the movie “The Kindergarten” (Detsky Sad) and “Stalin’s Funeral” (Pokhorony Stalina) which was both written and directed by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, popularly known for his profession as a Russian and Soviet poet. “Kindergarten” was produced in 1983 whereas “Stalin’s funeral” was produced in 1991 as Yevtushenko’s last film. Apart from simply writing and directing, Yevtushenko also created smaller roles for himself in the two movies. Despite the fact that the two movies have

Through a synthesis of observational photography and cinematic montage, Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov created Man With A Movie Camera, a radical work that is fully divorced from the theatrical and literary tradition of the use of fiction to communicate deeper truths and themes of reality. The film captures a day of urban Soviet city life and through juxtaposition and abstraction, morphs into a rhythmic visual poem that conveys a utopian vision of an egalitarian socialist society. Rejecting the formalism