This thesis is about filling the need for a new way to conceptualise montage. It is not only to analyse films with a new perspective but also to examine new montage through the relationship between...Show moreThis thesis is about filling the need for a new way to conceptualise montage. It is not only to analyse films with a new perspective but also to examine new montage through the relationship between film and linguistics. Most of all, film has been considered as a language as well as influenced by linguistics. In particular, montage has been compared to a grammar of a language helping people’s comprehension in their communication with films: montage is considered as a key effectively or powerfully conveying a narrative to the audience. Eisenstein developed a type of montage that was influenced by language. Montage of collision contrived by Eisenstein was derived from the Chinese characters and Japanese literary tradition such as the laconic form of poetry. Thus, he revealed the close relationship between montage and linguistics regarding film as a language. The relationship helps to arouse my research question, how a new approach to montage is deduced from linguistics, especially Egyptian hieroglyphs which have a unique structure: Egyptian hieroglyphs recorded the ancient Egyptian language with a mixture of sound(phonograms) and picture signs(ideograms). They embrace sound, text, and images like today’s components of moving images (or film). If the structure of Egyptian hieroglyphs is applied to montage in film, new forms of montage would be expected in diverse ways. Therefore, this thesis is to study a new approach to montage based on this connection between montage and Egyptian hieroglyphs.Show less
