Thursday, October 23, 2008

Thursday, October 23

We briefly reviewed the beginning of Metropolis -- its superficial similarity to Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera in its preoccupation with machines and the masses, and its deeper difference from Vertov in its fundamental outlook. We then watched several more sequences from Metropolis before moving on to the first section of Murnau's The Last Laugh.

Quiz Friday over Expressionism.

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