According to this author of "The Ontology of the Photographic Image," realism overtook                 imagism as the dominant cinematic style in the 1930s, and then split into the spatial realist and pure objective realist camp.
This author used the metaphor of jumping from stone to stone to cross a river to explain the experience of watching Paisà, which he said took the "fact" instead of the "shot" as its basic narrative unit. He referred to the human need to make the mortal immortal as the "mummy complex." He noted that another director would have used five or six shots for the scene of Susan's suicide attempt in Citizen Kane in his analysis of Orson Welles' use of (*) "construction in depth." According to this author of "The Ontology of the Photographic Image," realism overtook                 imagism as the dominant cinematic style in the 1930s, and then split into the spatial realist and pure objective realist camp. That theory is illustrative of his idea that film evolves toward a pure realistic cinema, which he championed over the montage theory of Eisenstein. For 10 points, name this French film theorist who wrote What Is Cinema? and co- founded Cahiers du cinéma.
This author used the metaphor of jumping from stone to stone to cross a river to explain the experience of watching Paisà, which he said took the "fact" instead of the "shot" as its basic narrative unit.
André Bazin