Eistenstein: Cinematography and montage

I was a fan of the way Eisenstein dissected montage. His initial discussion of Japanese theater and cinematography was an interesting direction to take. I particularly liked the idea of Japanese art as depicting parts of a whole and the later analysis of montage fragments: "the more differentiated they are the more abstract they become, provoking no more than a certain association" (12). I generally prefer these separate shots and emotional associations to a murder depicted as a whole scene; though I'd like to discuss in class what he meant by "materializing the idea, the impression, of murder through a free accumulation of association matter" (12).