Mark A. Cella is a distinguished fellow of film studies at Fresno State University. He’s a published writer on Cinema History and Film Theory. He has directed over 35 shorts and documentaries, including the award winning “Marlboro House”, which took top prize at the 2004 Slamdance short competition.
Today’s Topic: The Montage (Pt 1)
Montage is a problematic term. To most Europeans, all editing is montage while in the U.S. and U.K, montage has its own special meaning; a brief sequence of linking devices , usually dissolves, used to convey the passage of time or a series of locations. It is this transitional use that is of interest to us here.
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