Question by Da ViDnci: In Battleship Potemkin, how Eisenstein uses Marxist historical dialectic in Odessa Steps?
Hi everyone, this is one of my Film class questions. Please help out. Thanks a lot 🙂 The full question is too long to type. The full version is: Define the “Marxist historical dialectic”. Discuss briefly how Eisenstein uses discontinuity editing to politicize the events depicted in the “Odessa Steps” sequence from Battleship Potemkin in terms of the Marxist historical dialectic.
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Answer by Kalistrat
It is a scene where a lot of common people get killed by a machine gun on a long and wide stairway. Eisenstein just showed how the class of “exploitators” treated the “proletariat” classes.
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charlie at the lake says
I think your professor is full of **it. It's a revolutionary style of editing. The fast cut, the missing boring parts, but everybody gets what's going on. Prior to this film it was more let the camera roll.
I studied it in film school, not poly sci. Good luck.