Lev Kuleshov on Animation: Montaging the Image

Abstract

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.

La investigación sobre montaje cinematográfico en Web of Science en communication, film, radio & television, psychology y neurosciences & neurology

“…El objetivo de este estudio es determinar si esto ha revertido en una mayor atención al estudio del montaje cinematográfico y definir las características de las investigaciones presentes en WoS que atienden a esta labor. Algunas destacan la importancia del montaje como objeto de la investigación académica (Gaudreault y Gauthier, 2015;Montero-Díaz y Fernández-Ramírez, 2015;Bauer, 2016;Radunovic, 2017;Blackledge, 2017;Beloduborvskaya, 2018;Fernández-Ramírez, 2019a, 2019b, continuando así la reclamación histórica de que se le debería prestar una mayor atención científica.…”