The Purpose of Film Montage

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This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, on the use of montage in film. Eisenstein argued that the overall theme or message of a film should be presented through the montage technique: brief segments within the film that serve as counterpoints to each other. Bazin however thought that this technique was too artificial and argued for realism in film. There are 5 sources listed in the bibliography.