Becoming an image in the cinema: from Lessing and Hegel to S. Eisenstein

Abstract

The object of the study is the formation of an image in cinema. S.M. Eisenstein defined cinema as a comparison of two methods: the method of image and the method of figurative formation. The image in the cinema is the "image of becoming". The purpose of the study is to trace the evolution of views on the "image of becoming" from G. E. Lessing to G. V. F. Hegel and S. M. Eisenstein. The author refers to the origins of the formation of the "image of becoming", the teachings of G.E. Lessing and G.V.F. Hegel, who had a great influence on S.M. Eisenstein. G.E. Lessing determined that the methods of studying spatial and temporal arts are different. The method of image is a method inherent in spatial arts, the method of becoming is inherent in poetry as a temporary art. G.E. Lessing gave primacy to the method of becoming. G.V.F. Hegel dealt with a similar problem, he formed the doctrine of the "image of becoming" that arises in time. The research is based on the principle of image birth, developed by S.M. Eisenstein, according to whose teaching, an image is born in a montage. Comparative and semiotic methods are used in the study. The scientific novelty of this study lies in the research of the continuity of the doctrine of the "image of becoming", in the study of S. M. Eisenstein's innovation in this matter. According to S. Eisenstein, cinema is a synthetic, space-time art. It is associated with spatial arts, fine arts, architecture, sculpture, as well as with temporary ones: music, poetry. Cinematography is based on the "Dionysus method", which makes cinema related to other forms of play. According to S. Eisenstein, a movie frame is an assembly complex, it has its own design and composition, which makes it related to spatial types of art, as well as rhythm, which makes it related to the arts. Cinema is a complex system of images and signs. S.M. Eisenstein defines cinema as a field of language. The formation of an image in a movie takes place in time.