Kuleshov effect
Sign in to savefilm editing (montage) effect by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation
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Vinony files it under Cinema of the Soviet Union, Cinematic techniques and Cognitive psychology.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cognitive bias
- Named after
- Lev Kuleshov
- Cast member
- Ivan Mozzhukhin
- Image
- Kuleshov effect.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kuleshov effect
- facet of
- film editing
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Encyclopedic overview
Example clip of a modern Kuleshov sequence, where footage of a man's face is intercut with three different shots The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian film-maker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
Kuleshov's experiment
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