Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, September 16

Mr P announced that due to the dislocation in the school caused by Cody Botten's tragic death, the due date for the assigned online review will be postponed from Friday to Monday.

We discussed different ways of looking at films, including critical analysis and naive immersion, and established that we will be doing both throughout the semester.

We watched the last twenty minutes of Shadow of a Doubt, then briefly discussed the final scene in the film's context of the United States' recent entry into the new world war. How dark is the film? How tacked-on is the ending?

HW due Monday (postponed from Friday):
Online (IMDb) review, both posted and submitted in hard copy. See Documents page.