Date of Award
1-1-2013
Language
English
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School/Department
Department of English
Content Description
1 online resource (ii, 67 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Dissertation/Thesis Chair
Langdon Brown
Committee Members
Gerald Zahavi
Keywords
Appropriation, Montage, Post-Modern Film, Russian Formalism, Soviet Film, Terrorism, Appropriation (Art), Formalism (Literary analysis), Postmodernism, Motion pictures
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities | Film and Media Studies
Abstract
The text presented here is a study of the editing and appropriation techniques of three constructivist films and their affect on narrative: Artavazd Peleshian's Our Century, Johan Grimonprez's dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Adam Curtis' It Felt Like a Kiss. An analysis of these techniques is done through the lens of the Russian Formalists, Victor Shklovsky and Mikhail Bakhtin and their respective concepts of defamiliarization and familiarization. Attention is paid to formal analysis in relation to historical context.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Maureen, "On familiarity and defamiliarization in the use of appropriated material in film, and its consequences on narration : a study of Artavazd Peleshian's Our century, Johan Grimonprez's dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Adam Curtis' It felt like a kiss" (2013). Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024). 821.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/821