Bazin

In Bazin’s article, Bazin argues that in a two year period from 1928 to 1930 there was a “new birth of cinema” (155). The use of language in film allowed for a new montage to be formed which was able to grant further meaning to films. Bazin talked about how this transition allowed for the director to serve as an artist and author as well which means that overall films were turned into more of an art form than every before. Bazin explains that the visual aspects can be categorized as plastic and as mis-en-scenes. I personally did not really grasp why the first category was called plastic. When Bazin was talking about cinematic techniques I found it very interesting because creating associative montages by using superimposition creates implicit meanings through making unreal things appear real on the screen.