Beckett, Eisenstein and the Image: Making an Inside an Outside

Author: Antoine-Dunne, Jean

Source: Critical Studies, The Montage Principle. Edited by Jean Antoine-Dunne with Paula Quigley , pp. 191-213(23)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Abstract:

Beckett recognised in Soviet film montage a method and a system through which the problem of the relationship between form and content in a work of art could be resolved. His own concern with rendering a truthful image while at the same time imposing a shape on the work led to various experiments with light, conflict, distortion and the contrapuntal play of forms. His films for television and his one film for cinema have as their foundation the principles of Eisensteinian montage but stretch these principles to encompass the relation between the modernist artist and the object of his art. These montage forms are also to be found in his stage plays and in his prose works. His works constitute a major exploration of Eisenstein's theory that film could combine both objective reality and a subjective response to that reality without resorting to the relinquishment of control and form by the artist.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2003-08-01

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