In the 1920s, while Hollywood was perfecting the “continuity system”—a seamless, invisible style of editing designed to tell clear, character-driven stories—a revolution of a different kind was exploding in the young Soviet Union. This revolution was not just political; it was cinematic. From the rubble of the Tsarist empire and the fervor of the Bolshevik … Continue reading The Politics of the Cut: How Soviet Montage Theory Revolutionized Cinema and Challenged Hollywood