Lev Kuleshov is not well-known outside of film historian circles and most of his films have been lost, but he nonetheless was an important contributor to cinema as a filmmaker, a theorist, and as the teacher of Eisenstein and Pudovkin. Perhaps his greatest impact was in demonstrating the possibilities inherent in the montage, seeing it not only as a means to rapidly advance a narrative, but also as...
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