Film Studies Daily Log

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY for what's left of Winter Break

Up to 20 points available for a 1-2 page paper on the historical background of Casablanca, due Monday, January 5.

Questions to be answered include: Where is Casablanca? Who controlled it at the time the film was made? What role did Germany play there? Who governed France? What was Vichy France? What territory did it contain? How was it different from Occupied France? What territory was included in Occupied France? When was it occupied and by whom? Who was Marshall Petain? Who was Charles DeGaulle? Where was he? What was the Resistance? What were its different arms? What was the Spanish Civil War? What was the situation at the time in Ethiopia? What is the "Marseillaise"? What is "The Watch on the Rhine"? What was the Angriff? What is Vichy water?