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Montage

mon-TAHZH
Film Technique

Meaning made by cutting: the principle, developed by the Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s from Kuleshov's experiments and theorized above all by Eisenstein, that two shots in collision produce an idea neither contains alone. In everyday film language the word also names the compressed sequence that covers time in a burst of images.

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Concept Domain
Film technique 1
Formulated Year
1923 1
Eisenstein's Montage of Attractions essay appeared in 1923; the Kuleshov effect experiments date from around 1918 to 1921.
Domain
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Film 1
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Source A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook

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Film, Media Forms
Source A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook
Sources
1. A History of Narrative Film
David A. Cook, W. W. Norton, 2016
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