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| Near the end of WWI, Russia underwent two revolutions. The _____ Revolution, in which the Czar was overthrown by Alexander Kerensky, and the _______ Revolution, or the "Bolshevik Revolution," wherein Lenin overthrew Kerensky. |
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During War Communism, Lenin did 2 important things for the film industry.
1. Established __________, headed by Lunacharsky
2. Established the ______ _____ ____ ______, the first ever state-supported film school |
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| Narkompros, Moscow State Film School |
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| What two things did Narkompros, or the People's Commissariat of Education, oversee? |
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1. Newsreel production and propaganda shorts (agitki)
2. Domestic distribution via agit-vehicles |
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Lenin once said that "Of all the arts, film is the most important."
For what three reasons did he declare this? |
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1. It's a powerful tool of education and propaganda while being entertaining
2. It was a means of communicating with those who were uneducated or illiterate
3. It was easy to distribute |
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| This movement's philosophy considered the artist like an engineer whose studio was like a factory. They felt that art should be used for making useful objects or supporting the Soviet party policy. |
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| The Constructivist Movement |
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| The Constructivist Movement was inspired by these three movements: |
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| Cubism, Futurism and Suprematism. |
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| The "________ Workshop" studied how editing worked. In this workshop, students were known to cut films apart and re-edit them to change the story. |
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| In the "________ Effect," meaning is derived through content in editing. For example: If we see... man's happy face>gun>man's sad face VS. man's sad face>gun>man's happy face, we will interpret a different meaning. |
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| Shots of separate locations that create the illusion of being adjacent. |
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| Shots of separate body parts that create the illusion of belonging to one body with the use of body doubles. |
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| The book, "Film Technique and Film Acting" was written by which Montage filmmaker? |
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Pudovkin spread his teaching of the Theory of ________ _______, wherein A + B = C, or SHOT + SHOT = IDEA
Example: (A) We see a woman sitting by a man who is still. (B) Cut to her solemn face. (C) We do not assume she is going to a birthday party, we assume she is unhappy in her marriage. |
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| Theory of Additive Montage |
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| This Montage filmmaker went from designing propaganda posters to becoming a set designer to directing their first movie, STRIKE. |
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Eisenstein spread his teaching of the ___________ Montage, where A vs. B = C
or THESIS vs. ANTITHESIS = SYNTHESIS |
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____________/___________ Montage occurs when a type of cross-cutting is used to imply an association, metaphor or parallel.
Example: In Apocalypse Now, Kurtz's killing is intercut with the slaughtering of the bull. |
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| Intellectual/Associative Montage. |
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| Montage director _____ ______ sent his kinoki to go out and film life as it really was while following his kino-glaz method. |
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| These men wanted to be documentary filmmakers and follow the methods of Vertov. |
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| Kinoki, literally "cinema-eye-men" |
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Kino-Glaz, literally "cinema-eye," could be categorized into three total methods.
1. A ________ method, wherein life was filmed as it was, unscripted, unstated, real, and transformed in every way possible (fast/slow motion, etc.)
2. An ____________ method, wherein a montage inventory was taken, the footage organized like data, and was then organized thematically.
3. An _________ method, wherein pieces of montage footage were taken, keeping in mind the thematic content as well as the way they were transformed, and rearranged thematically but in a rhythmic order. |
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| A shooting method, an organizational method, and an editorial method. |
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| The Theory of _________ entails where the cuts come and the frequency of them, which determine the dynamic rhythm of the whole. |
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| The Man with the Movie Camera was directed by _____ ______. |
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| In 1930, _________, a government office that oversees every aspect of the film industry, replaces Narkompros and Lunacharsky. |
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| _____ __________, the head of Soyuzkino, moves Soviet cinema toward Socialist Realism as the Montage Movement comes to an end. |
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| a French term for “editing”; more specifically, as articulated by various Soviet filmmaker/theorists of the 1920s, a dynamic approach to editing that endeavors to control a film’s structure, meaning, and effects. |
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| A film that refers to or foregrounds the process of filmmaking itself, through its narrative content and/or its techniques. |
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