MONTAGE, REALISM AND THE ACT OF VISION
(1979-82)

by

Victor A. Grauer

©Victor A. Grauer, 1982

TO HOLLY

Table of Contents

Part I Montage and the Paradox of Film Realism

Chapter 1 The Double Aspect of Montage

Chapter 2 The Realist Reaction

Chapter 3 Realism, Semiotics, Ideology

Part II Roots of a Paradox:The Evolution of Pictorial Realism

Chapter 4 Window on the World

Chapter 5 The Window Shatters

Part III Montage and the Temporal Field

Chapter 6 The Cinematic Denial of Difference

Chapter 7 Brakhage and the Achievement of Filmic Negative Syntax

Part IV Beyond Realism:Fundamentals of Negative Syntax

Chapter 8 Space:Mondrian and the Archetypal Image

Chapter 9 Time:Webern, Serialism and Moment Form

Part V The Cinematic Act of Vision

Chapter 10 Art of Montage

Chapter 11 Realization of the Wish

Epilogue and Appendix

Chapter 12 The Politics of Vision
Selected shot sequences from Brakhage films