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Kuleshov may well be the very first film theorist as he was a leader in Soviet Montage Theory — developing his theories of editing before those of Sergei Eisenstein (briefly a student of Kuleshov) and Vsevolod Pudovkin . For Kuleshov, the essence of the cinema was editing, the juxtaposition of one shot with another. To illustrate this principle, he created what has come to be known as the Kuleshov Experiment . In this now-famous editing exercise, shots of an actor were intercut with various meaningful images (a casket, a bowl of soup, and so on) in order to show how editing changes viewers' interpretations of images. In addition to his theoretical work, Kuleshov was an active director of feature-length films, until the Stalinist Russian government began to disapprove of the lack of revolutionary fervor in his work. FILMOGRAPHY 1918 - The Project of Engineer Prite 1920 - On the Red Front 1924 - The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks 1925 - The Death Ray 1926 - By the Law 1927 - Your Acquaintance 1929 - The Merry Canary {Link without Title} 1929 - Two-Bul'di-Two 1931 - Forty Hearts 1932 - The Horizon 1933 - The Great Consoler 1934 - Theft of Sight 1940 - The Siberians 1941 - Incident on a Volcano 1942 - Youthful Partisans: Kartashova, The Teacher 1944 - We from the Urals HONOURS SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS FURTHER READING
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