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Ep 10 - Pre-Code Montage feat. Peter Labuza
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English - June 23, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBFilm Reviews TV & Film Film History Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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USC Postdoctoral Fellow and Cinephiliacs host Peter Labuza joins us to dissect the history of montage. Specifically, we discuss the use of montages in Pre-Code Hollywood cinema.
In the brief period between the introduction of synchronized sound and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production [AKA Hays] Code, artists like Slavko Vorkapich pioneered the use of montages: sequences which condense time and space to convey story beats, emotional states, and break the rules of conventional realism.