Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, March 22

We read together from Eisenstein's essay "Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today," and saw how Eisenstein and the other Soviet filmmakers of the twenties both learned from and, in their view, surpassed the films of D.W. Griffith in the use of "montage," or film editing.

We then watched the first 25 minutes of The Cutting Edge, a documentary about film editing; this included sections about Griffith and the Russians. Students took notes on the film and turned them in at the end of class.