HISTART 2901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Melodrama
23 Mar 2017
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Nature of wave hitting against the shore and the quote of revolution. The sailors in their hammock; the maggots in the meat. The machines and men: the men work best when everyone takes his part, much like. Crucifix and the tzar: these are the two oppressive systems to men in russia. Eisenstein used a variety of editing, like different shots of the camera and different machine parts work best when together. He goes further into developing more techniques, such as intellectual montage, while. Narrative system of eisenstein: using editing methods known before. locations. He used the concept of melodrama (good vs. bad). He divided his shots into 5 chapters. Opposition coming together, like the triumph of the sailors" coming together with the navy. Each chapter starts with conflict and ends with the outcome of a synthesis as a result. This synthesis or resolution became the pretext, or the reason, of/for the next chapter.
