The Battleship Potemkin | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 17 pages of analysis & critique of The Battleship Potemkin.

The Battleship Potemkin | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 17 pages of analysis & critique of The Battleship Potemkin.
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SOURCE: "Potemkin," in his Ten Film Classics: A Re-Viewing, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1978, pp. 1-17.

Murray is an American critic and educator. In the following essay, he summarizes Eisenstein's theory of montage and analyzes the composition of Potemkin.

Sergei Eisenstein will be remembered not only as a major filmmaker—his Potemkin has often been called "the greatest film ever made"—but also as one of the most important theorists of the cinema. Although he had provocative things to say about acting, sound, color, and film as a synthesis of all the arts and sciences, Eisenstein's most significant contribution to film study centers on his conception of montage.

The word "montage" comes from the French; it means "mounting" or "putting together." Sometimes montage is used loosely as a synonym for editing. Among Western film-makers, montage often means an impressionistic sequence of short shots intended to convey a sense of...

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