Concepts

Montage

mon-TAHZH

Film Technique

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Film and Media Atlas. "Montage." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-media.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/montage.

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Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Montage. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-media.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/montage

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@misc{filmandmediaatlas-montage,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Montage},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-media.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/montage},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Meaning made by cutting: the principle, developed by the Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s from Kuleshov's experiments and theorized above all by Eisenstein, that two shots in collision produce an idea neither contains alone. In everyday film language the word also names the compressed sequence that covers time in a burst of images.

Facts

Concept Domain

Film technique 1

Formulated Year

1923 1

Eisenstein's Montage of Attractions essay appeared in 1923; the Kuleshov effect experiments date from around 1918 to 1921.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Sergei Eisenstein

Source A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook

In Medium

Film

Source A History of Narrative FilmDavid A. Cook

Sources

1. A History of Narrative Film

David A. Cook, W. W. Norton, 2016

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