Sergei Eisenstein's Montage
Sergei Eisenstein's theory of montage involves the combining of fragmental shots of film into intellectual series and contexts. How the fragments combine and are formed is the essence of his notion of montage by conflict. This theory challenges traditional narrative movies because it involves taking an idea and recombining broken fragments in an incongruent way to produce new ideas, and occasional shocks. As a result, montage reflects more on community because it requires a wider range of images and ideas to communicate a broader concept. Traditional narrative movies reflect more on the individual because they require more of the same type images.The concept of how film narration communicates depends entirely on the structure or ordering of the sequence. Eisenstein structures the sequences of shots abruptly whereas traditional narrative movies rely mostly on the smooth flowing of shots of scenes to tell a story. Traditional narratives
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