montage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnˈtɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɒn.tɑːʒ/
ipa: /mɑnˈtɑʒ/
ipa: /ˈmɑn.tɑʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːʒ
Forms: form: montages
form: montaging
form: montaged
form: montaged
Etymology: , La matière denaturalisée. Destruction 2. (Denatured Matter. Destruction 2.; c. 1923), from the collection of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. The work is a collage, a type of montage.]]
Unadapted borrowing from French montage (“assembly, set-up”).
Senses: examples: text: The Keartons and our staff had out-montaged [Vsevolod] Pudovkin. The result viewed to-day may be somewhat out of date—though I'm not sure—but of one thing I am certain—that it is as fine an example as I know of a maximum effect of cinematic movement achieved by patience in editing.
ref: 1936, Adrian Brunel, Film Production, London: George Newnes, →OCLC, page 17:
text: The two background photographs shown in Fig. 2 were selected from the office files of Blakeslee-Lane Studios and then montaged together by copying onto a negative.
ref: 1941, Keith Henney, editor, Photo Technique, volume III, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Education, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Active in the field of environmental art since the 1960s, Nils-Udo builds structures, elaborates on the landscape in a scale that fits, montaging natural materials on site.
ref: 2004, John K. Grande, “Nature Vision: Nils-Udo”, in Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Being ‘talking pictures’, [Mikhail] Romm’s and in particular [Fridrikh] Ermler’s films, based on huge conversation scenes, led both directors to discover a ‘deep mise en scène’, when in order to avoid splitting up the action, ‘the actors themselves, coming out of the depths into the foreground, alter the scale of the portrayal. They montage the film on the move, so to speak, moving along the longitudinal axis of the frame.’
ref: 2008, Evgeny Dobrenko, “Shots from Underground: Dialectics of Conspiratorial Imagination”, in Sarah Young, transl., Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History: Museum of the Revolution, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 243:
text: There are plays by playwrights and then there are theatre texts. What do I mean by this? […] Texts are woven; they are nets that gather meanings. They are braided, knotted, threaded, sewn, patched together, edited, montaged. They evolve in the process of making performance.
ref: 2011, Anna Furse, “Introduction”, in Anna Furse, editor, Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration: An Anthology of Play Texts 1966–2010, London; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page v:
text: Max, who developed creative approaches and methods to use mobile devices and smartphones for moving-image and video production during the last eight years, is interested in further exploring ephemeral media and transcending the moments captured in micro-movies on location into immersive viewing experiences. He montages the first impressions captured on location into abstract micro-movies, which can be screened on mobile devices, tablets, and/or smartphones in any environment.
ref: 2017, Max R. C. Schleser, Anthony Nevin, “Shifting Our Horizons: Exploring Mobility in Micro Production and Floating Exhibitions”, in Camille C. Baker, Kate Sicchio, editors, Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: To combine into, or depict as, a montage.