1. Events that have helped shape the techniques of contemporary
... Acting (1935) a varied theory of cinema centered on what he called "relational editing-. For Pudovkin, montage was "the method which controls the psychological guidance' of the spectator."" He identified five separate and distinct types of montage: contrast, parallelism, symbolism, simultaneity, and leitmotif (reiteration of theme). Eisenstein set up his own theory of montage-as collision rather than linkage-in direct opposition to Pudovkin's theory. For Eisenstein ... of descending faceless soldiers with close-ups of students, pleading mothers and other identifiable members of society ...
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