Readings on Montage & Discussion Session on 2 Films

Film 1) Battleship Potemkin, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNT6xyopdBs

Film 2) Man with a Movie Camera, Dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zeCdQJcA88

NOTE: NO in-class screenings (both available at YouTube with English subtitle)

But hope you do review

DB&KT “the Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing”, Film Art: and Introduction (7^th Edition), University Of Wisconsin Press, 2003, p294-344

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Required Readings:

Bordwell, David. “The Idea of Montage in Soviet Art and Film”, Cinema Journal, Vol. 11,No.2 Spring 1972, p9-17

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B77fnvpX2gCNOU5IYXkzTVk5YU0/view?usp=sharing

Reference Reading:

Eisenstein, Sergei. “Montage of Attractions: For ‘Enough Stupidity in Every Wiseman’”, trans. Daniel Gerould, the Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 18, No. 1, Popular Entertainments (Mar., 1974), p. 77-85

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B77fnvpX2gCNN2otY1JyY2dxZGM/view?usp=sharing

[updated]
Stam, Robert. “the Soviet Montage-Theorists” & “Russian Formalism and the Bakhtin School”, Film Theory: an Introduction, Blackwell Publishing, 2000, p37-55

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1iCIatGj0eLOURQeWg4TW9ET1U/view?usp=sharing

We are not going to include the following reading part of the Required Readings; 

Eisenstein, Sergei. “The Dramaturgy of Film Form”, Critical Visions In Film Theory: Classic And Contemporary Readings, eds. Timothy Corrigan, Patricia White with Meta Mazaj, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011, p262-279