Film Studies Daily Log

Friday, October 16

Intro to Early Soviet Film

Mr. P announced Battleship Potemkin as the next film we will study in class, and we made the transition from Birth of a Nation partly by glancing at the decisive influence which Griffith's films had upon Eisenstein and other Soviet filmmakers around the time of the Russian Revolution. We also showed how the appeal of film's propaganda potential linked Griffith with the Russians.

Another link we examined (using projected images) was the link between Russian Constructivism as an artistic style and developments in modern art in Western Europe at that time.