While the new technique of montage and its proponents like Kuleshov and Eisenstein had begun to change the landscape of Soviet film, Vertov's Kino-Eye found popularity in their universality. Vertov credited American action films as the first form to harness cinema's incredible dynamism and the use of the close-up, but wanted to explore these forms even more deeply with Kino-Eye. He wanted a revolutionary form, a form that could represent truth in the way he believed most 'acted' films did not.

Kino-Eye developed as a response to what was happening in much of Soviet cinema at the time Vertov entered the playing field. In fact, the vast majority of 'entertainment' films shown in the 1920s were imported from Hollywood, and it was not until 1927 that Soviet-made films outsold imported films in the box office. However, by the mid-1920s, as Richard Taylor writes, 'The conventional structures of the cinema industry in its three major aspects - production, distribution, and exhibition - had been shattered by the Civil War.' Because of the resulting shortage of equipment and other resources, much of the footage shot in Russia in the 1920s was actually used for more 'necessary' forms of film such as the newsreel. The relatively new form was celebrated as the tool of a new social order by revolutionary leaders like Lenin and Trotsky. Available in Spanish.In the early 1920s, cinema emerged as a central medium of artistic expression in the Soviet Union. The Ignatian Adventure is an ideal resource for spiritual directors, but its user-friendly, down-to-earth style also makes it perfect for any individual seeking a deeper life of prayer. Through his deeply moving stories, readers discover how the Exercises intersect with the real world.

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Kino-Eye by Kevin O'Brien