Jacques Rivette and the history of montage

Favorite quote from Douglas Morrey:

http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/227

 

“Finally, when Jacques Rivette sketches out the history of montage, it appears as a dialectical process in itself.  Rivette identifies four stages, each of which affirms the former by negating it, in order to describe an ascending circle:

 

1) the invention of montage (Griffith, Eisenstein);

2) the ‘deviation’ of montage (Pudovkin, classical Hollywood editing);

3) the refusal of montage (Renoir, Rossellini, Welles);

4) the recuperation of montage (Resnais, Godard)”

 

The photo is from MOTHER (1926, Vsevolod Pudovkin).