Film Studies Daily Log

Tuesday, October 19

Students received two handouts, and we read from one, which discussed Eisenstein's adaptation of the Marxist dialectical method of thesis, antithesis and synthesis to montage, in which two images are juxtaposed in a way that their collision produces a "tertium quid," a third thing, which exists as meaning in the minds of the audience.  We proceeded to examine examples of such "intellectual montage" from Battleship Potemkin.

HW due Wednesday:
Read the two handouts.  Quizlet thereover.