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Montage Theory

Author: mario fierro-hernandez
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A + B = C

Equation used to label images and define montage theory.

Alfred Hitchcock

English film director noted for his suspenseful movies; Hitchcock often used montage to intensify the suspense and horror in his work.

Intellectual Montage

A system of editing that uses the dynamics of colliding images to create a new abstract image or idea not necessarily related to the previous two images.

Kuleshov Effect

A film technique named after Russian psychologist Lev Kuleshov, who discovered that viewing a picture followed by another picture induces a thought.

Sergei Eisenstein

Russian film director who pioneered the use of montage in film in the 1920s.

Soviet Montage

An approach to filmmaking which uses quick film editing and the juxtaposition of unrelated and sometimes conflicting images in rapid succession to impart meaning.