"Although some estheticians insist that the moving camera, because it calls attention to the filmmaker, is somehow less ethical than the stationary camera, this is as specious a differentiation as the earlier dichotomies between mise-en-scene and montage and between deep and shallow focus. A tracking"
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"Expressionism is a more generalized, romantic conception of film as an expressive force. Formalism is more specific, more "scientific", and more concerned with the elements, the details that go to make up this force."
"For Pudovkin, montage was "the method which controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator." In this respect, his theory was simply Expressionist - that is, mainly concerned with how the filmmaker can affect the observer. He identified five separate and distinct types of montage: contrast, p"
"For Eisenstein, montage has as its aim the creation of ideas, of a new reality, rather than the support of narrative, the old reality of experience."
"Pudovkin had seen the techniques of montage as an aid to narrative, Eisenstein reconstructed montage in opposition to straight narrative."