Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Cinematic Specificity

Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Greatest Bicycle Thief Homage Produced by Hollywood

Bazin's collection of articles on neo-realism from What Is Cinema?; Vol. II
(Please read only the articles on De Sica and The Bicycle Thief)
Below you will also find, embedded, Bazin's 'The Virtues and Limitations of Montage' from What is Cinema?; Vol I --click on the Google Books logo at the bottom of the frame and a new tab will open with a more comfortable page size for reading.




Vsevolod Pudovkin, "On Editing" from Film Technique
Sergei Eisenstein, "The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram" + "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" from Film Form

The 'Odessa Steps' sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (USSR, 1925)
referred to in the "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" article above.

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