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What was Russia like Prior to the Revolution?
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Under Tsarist Rule
Gen. Pop Poor Thin Layer of Wealth amongst the Aristocracy |
three reasons
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Who was the Last Tsar?
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Tsar Nicolas II
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Saint
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Who took control after the revolution and what was his background?
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Alexander Keresnky. Led The White Russians vs. Lenin' Red Russians.
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Russian Name
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What followed after the Russian Revolution Revolution?
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Communist rule, USSR Born 1922
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whatcha think?
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Why did Cinema become such an important force under Soviet Rule?
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Lenin's thinks cinema: The most important art, since, Film could be comprehended by the illiterate. Propaganda efforts.
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Propaganda
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What was the name of Moscow Film School and what is its main goal?
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VGIK ( Moscow Film School named after S. A. Gerasimov)- training for the Bolshevik Cause
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Film school provides: Very Good Internal Knowledge
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What was the name of the preferred soviet indoctrination for the masses?
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AGITPROP. Agitation and Propaganda. Propaganda was supposed to act on the mind, while agitation acted on emotions
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... is making me ill
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What is the concept of Kino Glaz?
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It represents Dziga Vertov's contention that the camera-eye is far greater than the human-eye.
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The Man With The Camera: "I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see."
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What is Kino Prada? And what was its purpose?
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Literally Film Truth. Newsreels developed by Dziga Vertov. agit-prop pieces to realistically display to modernity of Lenin's Russia versus the Horrors of Tsarist Russia, via associative editing.
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Kino: Film Prada:Truth
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Who Directed "The Man with A Movie Camera" (1929) and what are its notable qualities?
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Dziga Vertov. Unity between man and machine. Energy of the City. Scale escalation, grander and grander. Production and energy.
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Koyansquaatsi
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What is the Kuleshov effect?
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Named after director Lev Kuleshov. Every shot has 2 distinct values
1: which it possess as a photographic image of reality 2: which it acquires when placed in relationship to other shots. |
shots have 2 distinct values
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What is Creative geography? When is it used?
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Create a space by cutting that doesn't exist in reality. Technique invented by the Lev Kuleshov. Subset of montage:
multiple segments shot at various locations and/or times are edited together such that they appear to all occur in a continuous place and time. e.g. Man walks into a house into a studio. |
Create a space by cutting that doesn't exist in reality
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What is Montage? Who is its pioneer who used it famously in what film?
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A series of short shots is edited into a sequence to condense narrative. Used in the "Battle of Potemkin" by Sergei Eisenstein.
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has a similar to another man considered brilliant.
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What were difference in Protagonists in Hollywood films Versus The Soviet Films? Give an example of each
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Hollywood: One single protagonist.
e.g. Buster Keaton in The General Soviet: Strive (1925), and Potemkin (1925) multiple protagonists. |
Capitalist ideology vs. Communist.
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What is typeage and what was its effect?
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Identifying characters as types, archetypes rather than fleshed out individuals. Allows for self-identification.
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What were Eistenstein's 5 types of Montage?
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1. Metric- tempo of the cuts, the sequence
2. Rhythmic- showing the energy, by cutting in and out or counterpoint the energy by contrast. 3. Tonal- cutting based on the dominant emotional tone 4. Overtonal. Combination of metric, Rhythmic, and Tonal 5. Ideological/ Intellectual- Create metaphors ideas. Associate editing extended. |
Monkeys
Rarely Try Old Insects |
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Explain Intellectual Montage. Name examples from soviet and contemporary media.
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Based in Japanese Ideograms. e.g
bird+mouth=sing Marxist dialect. A+B=C. e.g. October (1926) Karensky+The Peacock=Karensky New Tsar. or At the end of Apocalypse Now the execution of Colonel Kurtz is juxtaposed with the villagers' slaughter of a water buffalo. |
A+B=C
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What happened to Soviet Cinema after Lenin?
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After Lenin was Stalin who criticisezed the "formalist" film-making. Cinema too caught up in aesthetics than the message. Proposed Socialist realism: teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism.
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