Carl Mayer's Complaint: Documentary Cutting and the Ethical Limits of Formalism

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dc.contributor.authorCameron, Evan Wm.
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-10T18:06:27Z
dc.date.available2020-07-10T18:06:27Z
dc.date.issued1968
dc.description.abstractIn 1926, Carl Mayer, the most distinguished of German screenwriters, withdrew from the production of BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY, a film that he had conceived and initiated. He did so because Walter Ruttmann, the person assigned by the studio to direct and edit the film, was destroying the integrity of the objects and events seen within it through his techniques of continuity cutting. Within this lecture I describe Ruttmann's techniques and Mayer's objection to them, for the latter's insistence that filmmakers respect the integrity of the objects and events encountered by means of movies has profound implications for the ethical making of them and therewith the making of artefacts within other arts as well.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/37613
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectBERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A CITYen_US
dc.subjectCABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THEen_US
dc.subjectCinematographyen_US
dc.subjectDirectingen_US
dc.subjectEditingen_US
dc.subjectEisenstein, Sergeien_US
dc.subjectFilmmakingen_US
dc.subjectFilmmaking, Documentaryen_US
dc.subjectFlaherty, Roberten_US
dc.subjectGrierson, Johnen_US
dc.subjectLAST LAUGH, THEen_US
dc.subjectMayer, Carlen_US
dc.subjectOLYMPIAen_US
dc.subjectPudovkin, Vsevoloden_US
dc.subjectRealismen_US
dc.subjectNaturalismen_US
dc.subjectRotha, Paulen_US
dc.subjectRuttmann, Walteren_US
dc.subjectScreenwritingen_US
dc.subjectScreenwriting, History ofen_US
dc.subjectSeeing Moviesen_US
dc.subjectTRIUMP OF THE WILLen_US
dc.subjectVertov, Dzigaen_US
dc.titleCarl Mayer's Complaint: Documentary Cutting and the Ethical Limits of Formalismen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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