Sergei Eisenstein

Thomas Drake Jr. LIT 106 Professor Edward Kihn Short Paper Response Assignment 1 Question 1 Characterize some of the major changes from filmed “actualities” to early narrative cinema (5%): The characteristics of the major changes from filmed “actualities” to early narrative cinema began in the early 1900’s. An actuality film is a non-fiction film portraying footage through a real event. A narrative cinema was a fictional film presenting the audience a story. The audience’s attention…

One of the more interesting films of this time period was, Ivan the Terrible, directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The film was actually commissioned by the Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, who admired and idolized Ivan. This two-part historical epic, however, went against Party lines when it portrayed Ivan in a negative light. This resulted in the banning of the film on the order of Stalin which terminated the proposition of a third-part to the series. Oddly enough the first Part of the series, Ivan…

In Part Four: The Odessa Staircase of Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein uses the various techniques stated in his “Methods of Montage.” Specifically, we look at the scene in which the mother begins to run down the steps with her son by the hand. The establishing shot is in the Odessa steps (i.e. the staircase) since it tells us where the scene will take place. It starts with a rhythmic montage because the music playing in the background is determined by the content of the scene. The visual…

The films of the Soviet Union and their relevant content very closely mirrored the changing eras and political climate of the times they were released. Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, film played a critical role in both perpetuating and diminishing the socialist ideologies of the Party, while providing artists and auteurs with a creative outlet in a relatively totalitarian state. Film as an art form was highly compatible with communism and the socialist ideologies of the Soviet Union…

The evolution of editing began when the Lumiere brothers invented the Cinematographe in 1895. This device allowed users to capture, process and project footage from the device itself (B. Retchless, n.d). Early film makers would play a continuous unbroken piece of footage which was shot from a static position, once the footage had finished they would reload the Cinematographe and continue playing the next sequence of film. This resulted in a laps of time between the viewing of footage for the…

starts to wash her face. The film then cuts to high-pressure water cleaning off a pole. These two scenes match in the way that they both include water and cleaning. The scenes differ in a way that would elicit thought into the viewer into a style of Eisenstein favours and…

As the 69th Cannes Film Festival progresses, an attempt at revisiting the only Indian film to have won Grand Prix there In a year when no film from India has made it to the competition section at Cannes, it is interesting to note that the only time an Indian entry won the top honours there was a year before the country was born. Almost 70 years back, in 1946, Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand shared the Grand Prix with 10 other films. Among the very first films to follow the approach of social…

The focus is on the significance of the existence of the fundamental principles of architectural design in the field of cinema, it is also intended to support this assumption with certain examples in filmic medium. In other words, with an agreement that basic principles of architectural design can be treated as an apparatus for the design of a film, this comparison will emphasize not only the significant role of architectural basic design elements in the process of filmmaking; but also emphasize…

and manipulate emotions and heighten the suggestive expressivity of the story." Numerous examples of the persuasive effects of music are exhibited throughout the political propaganda films; Olympia by Leni Reifenstahl, Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, as well as in BBC 's nature documentary Human Planet. A direct correlation exists between a viewer 's attentiveness to a scene and their susceptibility to manipulation—successful music directors, such as Olympia 's Herbert Wendt, exploit…

Kukan: The Battle Cry of China (Scott, 1941) is a lost Oscar-winning film produced during the Second World War. In April 2015, the Academy Film Archives sent an incomplete film print of Kukan back to China. A grand ceremony observing the arrival of the film was held in Chunking, China, one of the most grievous battlefronts of the eastern hemisphere during the war. The film itself, although “crudely made,” was one of the handfuls of documentaries that captured Japan’s invasion of China from a…