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Title: #History: Sergei Eisenstein's Debuts in US (1926)
Post by: TFD on Dec 05, 2014, 09:31 AM
Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, based on the real-life 1905 uprising aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin, is a seminal film in cinematic history. Eisenstein deliberately wrote the silent film as a revolutionary propaganda piece and used it to test his theories of "montage," a form of movie collage consisting of a series of short shots edited into a sequence intended to effect emotional or intellectual responses. What is the film's most famous montage sequence? Discuss (http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst70328_Sergei-Eisenstein-s--i-Battleship-Potemkin--i--Debuts-in-US--1926-.aspx)