Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, March 29

Students turned in single-scene analysis essays and returned films.

To put the artistic style of Battleship Potemkin and Man With a Movie Camera (which students will view starting tomorrow) into their broader cultural context we looked at slides of Cubist (Duchamp and Picasso) and Futurist works, and, for the Russian context, examples of Constructivism (including Rodchenko and Tatlin). We concluded with some of the anti-Fascist photomontages of the German Communist John Heartfield.