Kuleshov on Film: Writings by Lev Kuleshov by Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov, Ronald Levaco

Kuleshov on Film: Writings by Lev Kuleshov



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Publisher: Univ of California Pr
ISBN: 0520026594, 9780520026599
Page: 121
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Three pairs of images from the film experiment carried out by the Russian psychologist Lev Kuleshov around 1920. The idea that editing constitutes the “essence” of film art originated with the Russian director and theoretician Lev Kuleshov (1899-1970) who experimented with montage in the 1920s in an almost scientific fashion and is also one of the key exponents of the 'film as language' idea. The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov's most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. Lev Kuleshov The founder of the world's first film school and he is very first film theorist for Soviet Montage. These studies began a continuous line of European philosophical works on film that stretched through to today's writings by Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek. Since the beginning of the film era people have been watching, and talking about, and writing about movies. The viewer was not a passive viewer, who simply marveled at the spectacle, but was an active participant in creating the meaning of the work. The following list of a baker's dozen titles, limited to one film per director, is consciously meant to underscore the era's diversity. There was a lot more action in this film and he followed the action throughout the story. Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin are his students and had develop his theories of montage editing. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Kuleshov, 1924). He also started moving the cameras. Source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474487/bio : accessed on 12/9/2012.