The term montage has a slightly different meaning when referred to in the following three contexts:
- French film
- Hollywood cinema
- Early soviet filmmaking
The French Montage - In French film practice 'montage' simply has its literal French meaning - Assembly. Therefore, in French film the term simply identifies the process of editing.
Hollywood Style Montage - Used to condense a long narrative sequence into short compact sequence. E.g. weeks of training condensed into two minutes. e.g. Rocky
Soviet Montage - In early Soviet filmmaking in the 1920s, 'montage' had a different meaning. Film makers started juxtaposing shots to create new meaning that did not exist in either shot alone.
Lev Kuleshov (a young Soviet film maker) did an experiment in around 1920. He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and inter-cut the shot with different images.
An example of this would be Strike! (Eisenstein). Strike Sergei Einstein 1925. At first the two scenes seem unrelated. The butcher is working in a slaughter house. The striking workers being pursued by Russian troops
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