Engineering Performance: Lev Kuleshov, Soviet Reflexology, and Labor Efficiency Studies

Olenina, Ana Hedberg

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“…Such a conceptualization of a human body as a sum total of its fragments is analogous to that of a mechanism whose work as a whole is determined by the work of its separate parts. Anna Olenina’s (2013) parallel between an actor and an inanimate object that she makes in her article on Kuleshov’s acting system goes along these lines of enquiry. She writes that in the 1920s there was a belief ‘that Kuleshov’s ideal actor was a puppet, a passionless automaton performing stunts with a machinelike precision’ (p. 300).…”

Section: Kuleshov’s Lectures: Movement Acting System and Animated Cmentioning

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Lev Kuleshov on Animation: Montaging the Image

Blackledge

2017

Animation

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The Soviet film director Lev Kuleshov has not been historically associated with animation, and yet his legacy includes: an article on animation published in the Soviet central specialized newspaper Kino Gazeta; a film, a substantial part of which is animated; as well as a text of four lectures preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI). In the lectures that he delivered to animators at the Soviet central animation studio Soiuzmul'tfil'm, he repurposes his theories of montage and acting for the needs of the medium of animation. Analyzing these materials, with the primary focus on the lectures, this article introduces Kuleshov's contribution to animation theory and production, and suggests that Kuleshov's legacy not only sheds light on the historically specific situation in animation production characteristic for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, but also facilitates a deeper understanding of the animated image as a phenomenon.

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Section: Kuleshov’s Lectures: Movement Acting System and Animated Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lev Kuleshov on Animation: Montaging the Image

Blackledge

2017

Animation

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The Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria Collaboration

Vassilieva

2019

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This article analyzes the unique historical collaboration between the revolutionary Russian film director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), the cultural psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934), and the founder of contemporary neuropsychology, Alexander Luria (1902–1977). Vygotsky’s legacy is associated primarily with the idea that cultural mediation plays a crucial role in the emergence and development of personality and cognition. His collaborator, Luria, laid the foundations of contemporary neuropsychology and demonstrated that cultural mediation also changes the functional architecture of the brain. In my analysis, I demonstrate how the Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria collaboration exemplifies a strategy of productive triangulation that harnesses three disciplinary perspectives: those of cultural psychology, neuropsychology, and film theory and practice.

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Engineering Performance: Lev Kuleshov, Soviet Reflexology, and Labor Efficiency Studies

Cited by 2 publications

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Lev Kuleshov on Animation: Montaging the Image

Lev Kuleshov on Animation: Montaging the Image

The Eisenstein-Vygotsky-Luria Collaboration

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