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Kuleshov on Film: Writings by Lev Kuleshov Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov, Ronald Levaco
Publisher: Univ of California Pr

The Kuleshov effect is a film editing effect demonstrated by the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910's and 1920's. At first, I had Mozhukhin “From 1918 on we studied film writing, or how to write with a camera. He screened a short film of still images for an audience. I have learned much about writing since producing this work, but I am publishing it here despite its flaws because it will never see the light of day if I do not make it available somewhere. For better or worse, here it is. It and infusing it with new meaning. We were ignorant, and suffered from the absence of a film-alphabet. This essay will explore these elements—including defamiliarization, creative acting, and typage—through the eyes of the Russian Formalists, focusing in particular on the works of Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Eisenstein. The Kuleshov Effect is the result of a very famous film experiment done by Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. By 1919 Lev Kuleshov had already started to make fundamental experiments to push the use of montage, and formulated what has come to be known as the “K” effect: “From old films I took shots of the actor Mozhukhin and edited them with various other shots.