Montage

Montage enters into a dialogue with the cinema, probing and playing with its language of motion and stillness, continuity and discontinuity, constraint and openness, time and duration.  Comprised of a series of elegantly written and intellectually vibrant essays, Sam Rohdie’s book carefully guides its ideas and arguments to a plane free from the often unwieldy complexities of contemporary theory and cultural criticism.  As much a book written with the cinema as about it, Montage explores associative and comparative possibilities in the films of directors such as Takeshi Kitano, Jean Renoir, D.W. Griffith, Howard Hawks, Lev Kulsehov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Alfred Hitchcock. Through the prism of montage, it offers new and fascinating perspectives on mise en scène, framing, shots, and narrative variation. In combining the sensitive analysis of film forms and structures with an awareness of their historical and artistic relation to other art forms, it also elucidates an appreciation of montage aesthetics that is attentive to the influences of photography, painting and other arts.  Montage is a book that constantly enriches our ways of seeing, understanding, and enjoying the cinema.

Contents
Introduction
1. Eadwaerd Muybridge
2. Takeshi Kitano
3. Takeshi Kitano (2)
4. Pier Paolo Pasolini
5. Lev Kuleshov
6. Sergei Eisenstein
7. Sergei Eisenstein (2)
8. David Wark Griffith
9. David Wark Griffith (2)
10. David Wark Griffith (3)
11. Éric Rohmer
12. Alfred Hitchcock
13. Samuel Fuller
14. Dziga Vertov
15. Howard Hawks
16. Howard Hawks (2)
17. Jean Renoir
18. Jean Renoir (2)
19. Jacques Rivette
20. Michelangelo Antonioni
21. Michelangelo Antonioni (2)
22. Jacques Rivette (2)
23. Alain Resnais
24. Alain Resnais (2)
25. Étienne-Jules Marey
Bibliography
Index