Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, March 30

We watched sequences from Man With a Movie Camera and analyzed the juxtaposition of images. What meanings are conveyed by the combination of cuts? Is this montage of association (visual metaphor) or montage of contrast? We discussed these questions with regard to part of the industrial section of the film, then replayed it with Yuri Tsivian's commentary to see how he viewed the sequence. Then we watched an earlier part of the same section with juxtapositions of the beauty parlor and other worksites and attempted to answer the same questions about it.

HW due Tuesday:
Single-scene analysis essay. It will be worth 80 pts.