Film Studies Daily Log

Tuesday, March 22

We returned to the subject of montage in The Battleship Potemkin and examined the "dialectic" of Eisenstein's editing by looking at the the three cherubs and the three stone lions at the conclusion of the Odessa Steps sequence. We then watched the famous shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho, with its fifty cuts from seventy-seven camera angles as a similar exercise in creating an effect less from what is shown than from the skillful juxtaposition and pacing of images.