Expanded Assembly

This book is the result of a study of cinematographic montage procedures in search of a broader understanding of its mechanisms of operation as a principle that creates images loaded with meaning. Soviet montage is the reference system for an interpretation of the basic principles of montage elaborated on an amplified field, in which the various ways of operating this procedure are brought together in the notion of expanded montage. In order to verify the existence of a common radical among the heterogeneous forms in which montage is presented in cinema, I bring together artistic, philosophical and linguistic aspects that can be verified in the composition of the Soviet term and in more current versions of the concept, in order to understand it as a way of creating that is perceptible in various artistic languages, especially in theater. In the final stage, I analyze these procedures in the theatrical staging of Cabras: cabeças que voam, cabeças que rolam... by Cia Teatro Balagan.