EISENSTEIN: THE AUTHOR’S TERMINOLOGICAL FAMILY WITH THE VERTEX WORD “MONTAGE” (BASED ON LECTURES OF 1933-1934)

Abstract

Sergei Eisenstein entered the history of pedagogy as an organizer of the first systematic training course for film directors. His lectures were not only important, innovative and original teaching material, but also addressed theoretical issues of film directing, including the principles, techniques and methods of editing. In his lectures during the academic year Eisenstein returned more than 100 times to different issues of montage. Eisenstein unfolded before the students a complex system of derivative terms, interrelated and interdependent units that form the semantic family “montage”. From the quantitative point of view, the nest of terms with the vertex word “montage” is qualified as highly expanded: it contains 47 derivatives and 1 source word. The derivatives of the nest belong to the I-IV stages of word formation; terminological word combinations play the main role in it. The semantic family with the vertex word “montage” is characterized by great depth and complexity.