Tossup

An essay by this thinker thanked American action films for their quick editing and close-ups, calling them superior to psychological dramas but still lacking in order. This writer described cinematographers of the time as “a herd of junkmen doing rather well peddling their rags” in his “WE: Variant of a Manifesto.” This theorist collaborated with (15[1])his wife and his brother on a series of 23 newsreels to promote his concept of (*) kino-pravda, or “film truth,” (10[1])which eventually inspired the term cinéma vérité. A work by this (10[1])director intercuts shots of women sowing with his wife editing strips of film; that film by this director opens by stating it is a cinematic experiment without use of intertitles, scenario, or theater. For 10 points, name this Soviet film theorist who pioneered a number of avant-garde techniques in his film Man With a Movie Camera. ■END■

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary