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   Dziga Vertov

   With Lenin's admission of limited private enterprise through his New Economic Policy, Russia began receiving fiction films from afar, an occurrence that Vertov regarded with undeniable suspicion, calling drama a "corrupting influence" on the proletarian sensibility ("On 'Kinopravda,'" 1924). ... Thomas Tode, Barbara Wurm, Austrian Film Museum eds.Dziga Vertov.
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   Jean-Luc Godard

   An interesting aspect of Godard's philosophy on filmmaking was his inherent and deliberate embrace of contradiction. ... The Dziga Vertov group
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   Constructivism (art)

   The filmmakers and LEF contributors Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein as well as the documentarist Esfir Shub also regarded their fast-cut, montage style of filmmaking as Constructivist.
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   Documentary film

   Documentary, as it applies here, works to identify a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries. ... "Dziga Vertov".
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   Cinéma vérité

   This article is about filmmaking. ... The term originates in Dziga Vertov's Kino-Pravda (Russian for "cinema of truth"), a documentary series of the 1920s.
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   Sound film

   Many similar experiments were pursued by Dziga Vertov in his 1931 Entuziazm and by Chaplin in Modern Times, a half-decade later. ... The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era.
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   Experimental film

   Experimental film or experimental cinema describes a range of filmmaking styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary filmmaking. ... The films of Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Alexander Dovzhenko, and Vsevolod Pudovkin were instrumental in providing an alternate model from that offered by classical Hollywood.
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   Cinema of the Soviet Union

   Furthermore, the new government did not have the funds to spare for an extensive reworking of the system of filmmaking. ... Dziga Vertov's newsreel series Kino-Pravda, the best known of these, lasted from 1922 to 1925 and had a propagandistic bent; Vertov used the series to promote Socialist realism but also to experiment with cinema.
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   Database cinema

   MIT Press, 1998) in his effort to understand the changing technologies of filmmaking techniques in media landscapes. ... Dziga Vertov can be seen as an even earlier database filmmaker.
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    La Chinoise

    Along with Pierrot le fou, Masculin, féminin, Two or Three Things I Know About Her and Week End, La Chinoise is often seen as signaling a decisive step towards Godard's eventual renunciation of "bourgeois" narrative filmmaking. ... Dziga Vertov Group/Political films

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• Dziga Vertov,
• Jean-Luc Godard,
• Constructivism (art),
• Documentary film,
• Cinéma vérité,
• Sound film,
• Experimental film,
• Cinema of the Soviet Union,
• Database cinema,
• La Chinoise