Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, March 15

Students borrowed films for their outside viewing papers (due March 26), after which we watched the conclusion of Birth of a Nation. During the final reel students rose to their feet cheering and waving their checklists as the heroic clansmen rode to the rescue to the triumphant strains of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, and in the closing seconds of the film all joined their lusty voices in our national anthem: "And say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the Aryans?"

Or maybe not.

Students turned in their checklists.