“Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? Language is much closer to film than painting is.”
About This Quote
“A Dialectical Approach to Film Form.” Film Form 60. Eisenstein: Selected Works, Vol. I, “The Dramaturgy of Film Form,” 178.
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