Classicism, Montage, Mise en Scene

The first in a new Legenda Film Studies series, Rohdie’s essay examines the relationship between three key theoretical concepts in film history-classicism, montage and mise-en-scene - showing how each one concerns the problem of modernism and the link between cinema and the other arts. The author concentrates on a range of directors: Cocteau, Rossellini, Visconti, Pasolini, Godard, Rivette and Cassavetes whose works, in different ways, involved cinema with theatre, lyric opera, poetry, music and painting.