BARON, CYNTHIA. “Acting Choices/filmic Choices: Rethinking Montage and Performance”.Journal of Film and Video 59.2 (2007): 32–40.

She touches upon Eisenstein’s views on montage, and how actors’ movements, gestures,

and expressions can have a mutually interactive relationship with the selection and

combination of shots and editing patterns. She uses the example of Romeo and Juliet to

explain how they are staged in order to give the editor more shots to work with. This

article also explains how the cinematographer uses point of view shots following Juliet’s

movements throughout the shot. The editor chooses long takes and long shots to create

space around the lead actors. This helps to convey the sincerity of the characters’ lofty

sentiments, the purity of their souls, and the elegiac tragedy of their suffering.

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