- Feb 2022
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sakai.duke.edu sakai.duke.edu
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Hence the image of a scene, a sequence, of a whole creation, exists not as something fixed and readymade. It has to arise, to unfold before the senses of the spectator.
Montage is the act of making. It is the compilation of various different parts that come together to create something that is the greater than the sum of their parts. Montage requires construction
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. In this ·latter stage it is important that the memory should pay as little attention as possible to' the first stage, and reach the result after passing through the stage of assembling as swiftly as possible.
Something is created and made by using a series of images, in this case it is a memory that is made by grafting together moments
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The image of the given street began to emerge and live in the consciousness and perception exactly as, in the course 9f creating a work of art,
Montage allows people to create the image of the street even when the name of the street is not evocative.
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we are inevitably compelled to resort again to a chain of intervening representations, which, in aggregate, form the Image
If images are composed of a "chain of intervening representations," they are composed of montages. They are made of different disparate parts coming together to create an image.
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These "mechanics" of the formation of an image interest us because the mechanics of its formation in life turn out to be the prototype of the method of creating ilnages in art. .
He's creating a connection between the way in which images are created and the way in which art is created. The creation of images uses montage as a tool, and thus the creation of art requires montage. Montage is fundamental to the creation of art and image.
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However, whether in picture, in sound, or in picturesound combinations, whether in the creation of an image, a situation, or in the "magical" incarnation before our eyes of the images of the drama tis persona
Giving examples of how montage can be used to create the fantastical within a piece of writing
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At the base of all these methods lie in equal measure the same vitalizing human qualities and determining factors that are inherent in every human being and every vital art.
Expounding upon his earlier idea of montage as a form of creation. He's asserting that it's fundamental to art and humanity.
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The basic fact was true, and remains true to this day, that the juxtapositibn of two separate shots by splicing them together resembles not so much a simple sum of one shot plus another shot-as it does a creation
Main idea? Arguing that montage isn't just putting together two disparate images, but rather the creation of a new idea.
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think it is apparent that the phenomenon we are discussing is more than widespread-it is literally universal.
He asserts universality of montage, the importance and prevalence of the tool within film and literature. It's an inherent part of creating art/media
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tbe need for connected and sequential exposition of tbe tbenze, tbe 11Zaterial, tbe plot, tbe action,
demonstrates complete change in film-making styles away from montage, slight derisive tone
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