Montage /

Rohdie, Sam, 1939-2015

Montage / Sam Rohdie. - viii, 146 pages ; 22 cm. - Cinema aesthetics . - Cinema aesthetics. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-142) and index.

Eadwaerd Muybridge -- Takeshi Kitano -- Takeshi Kitano (2) -- Pier Paolo Pasolini -- Lev Kuleshov -- Sergei Eisenstein -- Sergei Eisenstein (2) -- David Wark Griffith -- David Wark Griffith (2) -- David Wark Griffith (3) -- Eric Rohmer -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Samuel Fuller -- Dziga Vertov -- Howard Hawks -- Howard Hawks (2) -- Jean Renoir -- Jean Renoir (2) -- Jacques Rivette -- Michelangelo Antonioni -- Michelangelo Antonioni (2) -- Jacques Rivette (2) -- Alain Resnais -- Alain Resnais (2) -- Étienne-Jules Marey.

Montage enters into a dialogue with the cinema, probing and playing with its language of motion and stillness, continuity and discontinuity, constraint and openness, time and duration. Sam Rohdie's book guides its ideas and arguments to a plane free from the often unwieldy complexities of contemporary theory and cultural criticism. Montage explores associative and comparative possibilities in the films of directors such as Takeshi Kitano, Jean Renoir, D.W. Griffith, Howard Hawks, Lev Kulsehov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Alfred Hitchcock. Through the prism of montage, it offers new perspectives on mise en scène, framing, shots, and narrative variation. In combining the analysis of film forms and structures with an awareness of their historical and artistic relation to other art forms, it also elucidates an appreciation of montage aesthetics that is attentive to the influences of photography, painting and other arts.

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Motion pictures--Editing.
Motion pictures --Production and direction.
Motion picture producers and directors --History and criticism.

702.813 RO.M 2006