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    Soviet montage theory was an approach to filmmaking that relied heavily on editing techniques and the rhetorical effect created by sequencing shots in a particular order. This document discusses how previous studies of Soviet montage cinema focused more on technical aspects rather than it being a rhetoric. It compares and contrasts the methods used by filmmakers like Kuleshov, Pudovkin, Eisenstein and Vertov to exert rhetorical effects through their films for political propaganda purposes, arguing that definitions of propaganda in studies of Soviet montage have been too narrow.

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    Soviet Montage

    The principle contribution of Soviet film theorists to global cinema was


    Montage Theory, which brought formalism to bear on filmmaking. Soviet
    montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies
    heavily upon editing (montage is French for "assembly" or "editing").
    Most previous studies of Soviet montage cinema have concentrated on its visual
    and technical aspects; however, montage cinema was essentially a rhetoric
    rather than an aesthetic of cinema. This theory presents a relative study of the
    leading montage film-makers Kuleshov, Pudovkin, Eisenstein and Vertov
    comparing and contrasting the differing methods by which they used cinema to
    exert a rhetorical effect on the spectator for the purposes of political
    propaganda. The definitions of propaganda in general use in the study of Soviet
    montage cinema are too narrowly restrictive and a more nuanced definition is
    clearly needed.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYedfenQ_Mw
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YURdr5XdMY
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsUzglygW_s
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZaEcoi5io

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