Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, January 4

Mr. P reminded students of the writing assignment due tomorrow (see December 18).
As introduction to our next film, the anti-fascist Casablanca, we watched several minutes of Leni Riefenstahl's famous Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of the Will, a celebration of the 1934 Party Day rallies in Nuremberg, then followed that with the satirical "newsreel" Schichelgruber does the Lambeth Walk, which uses (and abuses) footage from Riefenstahl's film. Finally, we watched part of Charlie Chaplin's parody of Hitler from The Great Dictator.

HW due Tuesday:
400-word response to online commentaries on Citizen Kane. See Friday, December 18, for details.