Characters from Cinema 1: The Movement-Image

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Gilles Deleuze - This man is the professor of philosophy who wrote this text among several other books.

Henri Bergson - This man is the philosopher against whom the author launches his critical analyses.

Sergei Eisenstein - This man is a Russian film director who represents the Soviet school.

D.W. Griffith - This man is an American director who discovers composition of movement-images as an organism or organic unity.

Vertov - This man is a director in the Soviet school who develops a system of universal variation to define cine-eye, or camera as...
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