Kuleshov

[ koo-luh-shawf, -shof; Russian koo-lyi-shawf ]

noun

1. Lev (Vla·di·mi·ro·vich) [lef vlad-, uh, -, meer, -, uh, -vich, lyef vluh-, dyee, -myi-, r, uh, -vyich], 1899–1970, Soviet film director.

Example Sentences

This phenomenon is the basis for not just modern film editing but also several Garfield variants, including Garfield Thrown Out the Window, which intensifies the Kuleshov effect considerably.

From New York Times

Pipe Garfield relies on what cinema theorists call the Kuleshov effect: the tendency of audiences to invent a narrative connection between any two images in sequence.

From New York Times

It depicts a biologist from Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University, who is taking photographs of the mayflies as they lie dying on the road.

From Nature

They discuss the film’s famous brainwashing scene and the Kuleshov effect, the strange character of protagonist Joe Frady, and what makes a true paranoid thriller.

From Slate

He mentioned the Kuleshov effect, which was established in the early days of cinema by the Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov.

From The New Yorker