Sergei Eisenstein’s theory of collision montage can be applied to The Canterbury Tales because Chaucer’s writing is highly visual and often unconventional. This study analyzes several portraits and tales to demonstrate Chaucer’s literary collision montage technique. The opening lines of the General Prologue present the juxtaposition of the tripartite plant and humans to suggest commoners’ social immobility. The interruption of the Miller’s Tale clashes with the Knight’s to suggest the possibility of social mobility and to challenge traditional patriarchy. The latter half of the narrator’s description in the Wife of Bath’s portrait indicates a sexualized subtext through the juxtaposition of neutral images that undercuts her wealthy appearance. Chaucer’s literary collision montage technique is used to suggest the possibility of social mobility, and to reflect the disruption of the social hierarchy in late fourteenth-century England.

Samuel Beckett's Film has been the focus of several articles in the past decade. While current investigations of Beckett's film are diverse, what most of them share is their dependence on biographical data to support their readings. Many scholars who have written on Beckett's failed cinematic excursion, for example, point to Beckett's letter of 1936 to Sergei Eisenstein. However, the link between Beckett's interest in film and his admiration for James Joyce has sadly been overlooked. Both Irish writers saw the artistic possibilities in film and both admired the Russian silent film legend, Sergei Eisenstein. Although there is no record of Joyce and Beckett discussing cinema or of Beckett knowing about Joyce's meeting with Eisenstein in 1929, it seems unlikely that Beckett would not have known something about these meetings or Joyce's much earlier film enterprise, the Volta. By re-examining Film and speculating on the possible three way connections between Eisenstein, Joyce and Beckett, I wish to add a footnote to Beckett studies which hopefully will lead others to wander on the Beckett-Joyce-Eisenstein trail and which will open up further discussions of Film. Beckett's film is haunted by the memory of his friendship with James Joyce and his admiration for Eisenstein's talent, both of which are visible in the screen images and theme of Film.

Text in English with abstracts and keywords in English, Afrikaans and Sesotho / This was a practice-led study, in which I critically engaged with my own video artwork alongside the video works of three other artists. Selected works of Penny Siopis, Anders Weberg, Maja Zack and mine deal with the notions of memory and trauma. I investigated which visual strategies and techniques derived from film theory are employed in video art to simulate traumatic memories from war conflicts. This research analysed specific theories of Gilles Deleuze and Sergei Eisenstein to identify how certain film strategies are used in video art to simulate grievous historical events. I explored the way that these events shape postmemory, as theorised by Marianne Hirsch and Cathy Caruth. The theories of Susan Sontag and Jean Baudrillard describe how memory relies on imaginative investment and interpretation, creating a simulation of the past, in which affect takes precedence over accurate and factual portrayal of traumatic events. / Hierdie studie was ’n praktykgeleide studie waartydens ek my eie videokunswerk tesame met diè van drie ander kunstenaars krities ondersoek het. Gekose werke uit my eie stal, diè van Penny Siopis, Anders Weberg en Maja Zack handel oor die begrippe herinnering en trauma. Ek het ondersoek ingestel na die visuele strategieë en tegnieke voortspruitend uit filmteorie wat in videokuns aangewend word om traumatiese herinneringe van oorlogkonflikte te simuleer. Hierdie navorsing het die spesifieke teorieë van Gilles Deleuze en Sergei Eisenstein ontleed ten einde te identifiseer hoe bepaalde filmstrategieë in videokuns gebruik word om smartlike historiese gebeure te simuleer. Ek het die wyse nagevors waarop hierdie gebeure post-herinneringe modelleer, soos deur Marianne Hirsch en Cathy Caruth geteoretiseer. Die teorieë van Susan Sontag en Jean Baudrillard beskryf hoedat herinneringe op verbeeldingryke belegging en interpretasie steun om ’n simulasie van die verlede te skep waarin affek voorkeur kry bo die akkurate en feitelike voorstelling van traumatiese gebeure. / Seno e ne e le thutopatlisiso e e eteletsweng pele ke tiragatso, moo ke dirisaneng ka tshekatsheko le tiro ya me ya botsweretshi jwa bidio ke e bapisitse le ditiro tsa bidio tsa batsweretshi ba bangwe ba le bararo. Ditiro tse di tlhophilweng tsa ga Penny Siopis, Anders Weberg, Maja Zack le tsa me di samagana le dintlha tsa kgopolo le manokonoko. Ke sekasekile gore go dirisitswe ditogamaano le dithekenini dife tsa pono tse di tswang mo tioring ya difilimi mo botsweretshing jwa bidio go etsisa dikgopolo tsa manokonoko a dikgotlhang tsa ntwa. Patlisiso eno e lokolotse ditiori tse di rileng tsa ga Gilles Deleuze le Sergei Eisenstein go supa ka moo ditogamaano dingwe tsa filimi di dirisiwang ka gona mo botsweretshing jwa bidio go etsisa ditiragalo tse di botlhoko tsa hisetori. Ke tlhotlhomisitse ka moo ditiragalo tseno di bopang segopotso sa morago go ya ka tiori ya Marianne Hirsch le Cathy Caruth. Ditiori tsa ga Susan Sontag le Jean Baudrillard di tlhalosa ka moo kgopolo e ikaegang ka peeletso ya ikakanyetso le thanolo ka gona, e etsisa dilo tsa maloba, moo e leng gore ditlamorago e nna tsona ditlapele go feta pontsho e e nepagetseng le ya nnete ya ditiragalo tse di bakileng manokonoko. / Art and Music / M.V.A.

Propõe-se, nesta dissertação, identificar e analisar elementos da cinematografia do cineasta russo (soviético) Serguei M. Eisenstein que seriam fundamentais para a construção do filme como um texto artístico. Selecionou-se, como objeto de análise, o longa-metragem lançado em 1938, Aleksandr Niévski. Examina-se, ao longo da análise, elementos como a construção de personagem, o desenvolvimento do tema, o enquadramento, o som e a mise-en-scène. Parte-se da hipótese de que o filme, sendo um texto artístico, ainda que a sua produção esteja enraizada nas diretrizes do Realismo Socialista, não se limita a transmitir uma realidade restrita, antes o artista amplia as possibilidades significativas do material criativo de que dispõe resultando em um texto que transpõe seu limite espacial e temporal. Dentro dessa perspectiva, objetiva-se identificar os elementos da linguagem cinematográfica, (enquadramentos, mise-èn-scene, montagem etc) que foram explorados ao longo do filme, e analisar como esses aspectos são articulados na construção do tema da obra: o patriotismo. Para embasar o estudo proposto, dividiu-se, de modo geral, o campo teórico em duas vertentes: primeiramente, para a concepção do filme como um texto artístico, valemo-nos do conceito de obra de arte como um texto artístico, desenvolvido pelo teórico russo Iuri Lotman, e da concepção de linguagem poética discutida por Roman Jakobson; já para a análise dos elementos da linguagem artística cinematográfica, privilegiaram-se os textos teóricos de Serguei Eisenstein, assim como os estudos desenvolvidos por David Bordwell e Jean Mitry. Por fim, como metodologia de análise, buscou-se observar e analisar o período histórico vivido pelo cineasta no momento da produção do filme, o Realismo Socialista, e as referências históricas da personagem central que norteiam as escolhas artísticas. Posteriormente, verifica-se, por meio da análise dos elementos da linguagem cinematográfica, como o filme, enquanto um texto artístico, é portador de uma riqueza de sentido advinda da articulação dos elementos cinematográficos, favorecendo a construção de uma unidade temática: o patriotismo / The purpose of this dissertation is to identify and analyze elements of cinematography in the work of Russian (Soviet) filmmaker Sergei M. Eisenstein, which would be essential to the construction of the film as an artistic text. Aleksander Niévski, the motion picture released in 1938, was selected as the scope of the analysis. Throughout the analysis, elements such as character construction, theme development, framing, sound and mise-en-scène were examined. I begin with the hypothesis that the film, as an artistic text, in spite of having been produced with roots in the directives of Socialist Realism, is not limited to conveying a restricted reality; rather, the artist broadens the meaningful possibilities of the creative material at hand, resulting in a text that surpasses its limits of time and space. In this perspective, the objective is to identify the elements of cinematic language (framing, mise-èn-scene, editing etc) explored throughout the film and analyze how these aspects are articulated to construction the theme: patriotism. In order to lay the basis for the proposed study, the theoretical field was, overall, divided into two views: firstly, for the conception of the film as an artistic text, we made use of the concept of the art work as an artistic text - developed by Russian theorist Iuri Lotman and of the conception of poetic language, discussed by Roman Jakobson; and to analyze the elements of cinematic artistic language, the theoretical texts by Sergei Eisenstein as well as the studies developed by David Bordwell and Jean Mitry were favored. Finally, as a method of analysis, I sought to observe and analyze the historical period in which the artist lived at the moment of the production of the film the Socialist Realism and the historical references of the main character which conduct the artistic choices. Subsequently, by analyzing the elements of cinematic language, it is verified how the film, as an artistic text, bears a richness of meaning ensuing from the articulation of the cinematic elements, favoring the construction of a theme unit: patriotism

Propõe-se, nesta dissertação, identificar e analisar elementos da cinematografia do cineasta russo (soviético) Serguei M. Eisenstein que seriam fundamentais para a construção do filme como um texto artístico. Selecionou-se, como objeto de análise, o longa-metragem lançado em 1938, Aleksandr Niévski. Examina-se, ao longo da análise, elementos como a construção de personagem, o desenvolvimento do tema, o enquadramento, o som e a mise-en-scène. Parte-se da hipótese de que o filme, sendo um texto artístico, ainda que a sua produção esteja enraizada nas diretrizes do Realismo Socialista, não se limita a transmitir uma realidade restrita, antes o artista amplia as possibilidades significativas do material criativo de que dispõe resultando em um texto que transpõe seu limite espacial e temporal. Dentro dessa perspectiva, objetiva-se identificar os elementos da linguagem cinematográfica, (enquadramentos, mise-èn-scene, montagem etc) que foram explorados ao longo do filme, e analisar como esses aspectos são articulados na construção do tema da obra: o patriotismo. Para embasar o estudo proposto, dividiu-se, de modo geral, o campo teórico em duas vertentes: primeiramente, para a concepção do filme como um texto artístico, valemo-nos do conceito de obra de arte como um texto artístico, desenvolvido pelo teórico russo Iuri Lotman, e da concepção de linguagem poética discutida por Roman Jakobson; já para a análise dos elementos da linguagem artística cinematográfica, privilegiaram-se os textos teóricos de Serguei Eisenstein, assim como os estudos desenvolvidos por David Bordwell e Jean Mitry. Por fim, como metodologia de análise, buscou-se observar e analisar o período histórico vivido pelo cineasta no momento da produção do filme, o Realismo Socialista, e as referências históricas da personagem central que norteiam as escolhas artísticas. Posteriormente, verifica-se, por meio da análise dos elementos da linguagem cinematográfica, como o filme, enquanto um texto artístico, é portador de uma riqueza de sentido advinda da articulação dos elementos cinematográficos, favorecendo a construção de uma unidade temática: o patriotismo / The purpose of this dissertation is to identify and analyze elements of cinematography in the work of Russian (Soviet) filmmaker Sergei M. Eisenstein, which would be essential to the construction of the film as an artistic text. Aleksander Niévski, the motion picture released in 1938, was selected as the scope of the analysis. Throughout the analysis, elements such as character construction, theme development, framing, sound and mise-en-scène were examined. I begin with the hypothesis that the film, as an artistic text, in spite of having been produced with roots in the directives of Socialist Realism, is not limited to conveying a restricted reality; rather, the artist broadens the meaningful possibilities of the creative material at hand, resulting in a text that surpasses its limits of time and space. In this perspective, the objective is to identify the elements of cinematic language (framing, mise-èn-scene, editing etc) explored throughout the film and analyze how these aspects are articulated to construction the theme: patriotism. In order to lay the basis for the proposed study, the theoretical field was, overall, divided into two views: firstly, for the conception of the film as an artistic text, we made use of the concept of the art work as an artistic text - developed by Russian theorist Iuri Lotman and of the conception of poetic language, discussed by Roman Jakobson; and to analyze the elements of cinematic artistic language, the theoretical texts by Sergei Eisenstein as well as the studies developed by David Bordwell and Jean Mitry were favored. Finally, as a method of analysis, I sought to observe and analyze the historical period in which the artist lived at the moment of the production of the film the Socialist Realism and the historical references of the main character which conduct the artistic choices. Subsequently, by analyzing the elements of cinematic language, it is verified how the film, as an artistic text, bears a richness of meaning ensuing from the articulation of the cinematic elements, favoring the construction of a theme unit: patriotism

IN ENGLISH The primary concern of this thesis is to explore the instances of incorporation of media-specific elements extracted and translated from radio and cinema into Samuel Beckett's late prose. The analysis of the texts forming Beckett's Nohow On trilogy is based on the investigation of the two modes of perception - the aural and the visual - and is realised through the close reading of Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Wostward Ho in the context of media and film theory and practice. The chief premise is that the formal translations among the print and non-print media in Beckett's work are conditioned by the author's interest in, and theoretical and practical familiarity with, radio, television, and cinematography. The discussion is thus supported by biographical and bibliographical framework, and Beckett's familiarity with the specificities of broadcast media and cinema is considered in their direct relation to the progressive 'technologisation' of his fiction of the 1980s. The thesis outlines the origins and transformations of the motif of voice as one of Beckett's chief fictional concerns, and explores the texts' practical and notional borrowings from the field of cinematography to elucidate the way in which they are designed to simulate perceptual experiences. In doing so, the individual...

Cette thèse étudie le statut du dessin dans l'œuvre de Sergueï M. Eisenstein, à partir de l’étude des rapports entre dessin et montage, entre dessin et mise en scène et de l’examen de la nature intermédiale de l’œuvre d’Eisenstein. Dans le système de ce réalisateur le dessin est au cœur de son processus créatif et devient un milieu-médium à l’intérieur duquel des transferts, passages, transportations de formes, d’images et d’idées sont possibles. Eisenstein s’intéresse au dessin, à la fois, comme processus et comme méthode visuelle universelle de la créativité.On constate l’analogie entre la structure globale du film Ivan le Terrible et les axes essentiels de sa réflexion théorique, en particulier les principes de sa méthode créatrice (la pars pro toto, le MLB, la plasmaticité et le montage). Subordonnée à une architectonique spatio-temporelle rigoureuse, la structure du film est en même temps une structure ouverte, vivante en évolution perpétuelle, et cela tant à l’étape de sa conception qu’au niveau de sa perception et de sa post-analyse.Les analyses conduites dans cette thèse sur la production graphique d’Eisenstein, et à partir de celles-ci sur l’ensemble de ces travaux et de ces concepts, démontrent clairement la corrélation entre la structure de l’œuvre d’Eisenstein, en particulier pour celle du film Ivan le Terrible, et le fondement de son processus de pensée créative, processus qui traduit son propre rythme intérieur et la structure de sa conscience, les deux donnant l’impulsion à son expression artistique. Le dessin devient pour Eisenstein le milieu de réflexion sur lequel il s’appuie pour exposer la problématique du médium, mais aussi celle de l’histoire du cinéma en son lien avec l’histoire des médiums expressifs. Les dessins préparatoires constituent le médium visuel d’élaboration, de vérification et de mise en pratique de ses concepts théoriques dans une situation réelle de création de film.Eisenstein a ainsi constitué, à travers ce projet transversal et intermédial du film, un dispositif sphérique d’écriture de la méthode et de l’histoire générale du cinéma, en réalisant ainsi un modèle du « livre sphérique ». / This thesis studies the status of drawing in the work of Sergei M. Eisenstein, based on the study of the relationship between drawing and montage, between drawing and staging and the examination of the intermedial nature of Eisenstein’s work. In the system of this film director, the drawing is at the heart of his creative process and becomes an environment-medium in which transfers, passages, transportations of shapes, images and ideas are made possible. Eisenstein is interested in drawing, both as a process and as a universal visual method of creativity. An analogy exists between the overall structure of the film Ivan the Terrible and the essential axes of his theoretical reflection, in particular the principles of his creative method (pars pro toto, MLB, plasmaticity and montage). Subordinated to a rigorous spatial and temporal architectonics, the structure of the film is at the same time an open, living structure, in perpetual evolution, this as much at the stage of its conception as at the level of its perception and its post-analysis.The analyzes led in this thesis on the graphic production of Eisenstein, and from them on all his works and concepts, clearly demonstrate the correlation between the structure of the work of Eisenstein, and in particular that of the film Ivan the Terrible, and the foundation of his creative thought process, a process that reflects his own inner rhythm and the structure of his consciousness, both giving an impetus to his artistic expression. Drawing becomes for Eisenstein the medium of reflection on which he relies to develop the problematic of the medium, but also the one of history of cinema in its connection with the history of expressive mediums. The preparatory drawings constitute the visual medium of elaboration, verification and putting into practice of his theoretical concepts in a real situation of film creation.Eisenstein thus constituted, through this transversal and intermedial film project, a spherical system of writing of the method and the general history of the cinema, thus realizing the model of the "spherical book".