A Point about Pavolv

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Thu, 21 Nov 1996 LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

> It might be worth mentioning to note that Pavlov was highly influential
> on that first generation of Soviet montage filmmakers that included
> Sergei Eisenstein and, especially, V.I. Pudovkin.  See Pudovkin's FILM
> ACTING as an example of applied Pavlovianism.

> And Pudovkin, in turn, was a big incluence on Alfred Hitchcock.

I gather that there also was a lot of Pavlovianism surrounding the
Kuleshov Experiment, which, however, subverted Pavlovianism at the
same time. The same stimulus-shot causing different responses in
receivers depending on the context. And so, as we know, for all his
Pavlovianism, Hitch's REAR WINDOW is so Kuleshovian, so Kuleshovian, 
the same shot of JS's face likely to arouse different emotions in
viewers depending on whether it is shown together with that just-
married couple, or that desperate woman, or that murderer, etc.

But what to think of Dovchenko's speaking horses? Then again, AD 
was really form Ukraine, the land of Gogol... 

Heikki