Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, September 29

Mr. Potratz distributed a two-page checklist of techniques in Birth of a Nation which students are to fill in while watching the film. We spent a few minutes asking and answering questions about the social context of the film at the time it was released (in response to Friday's handout).
Then we watched more of the movie up to the point when Mrs. Cameron pleads with The Great Heart (Pres. Lincoln) to save the Little Colonel from execution.