Film Studies Daily Log

Wednesday, January 26

We took out the turntable and listened to Woody Guthrie sing "Pretty Boy Floyd," a song about a Robin Hood character from Oklahoma in the 1930's similar to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrows, then looked at some snapshots of the real Bonnie and Clyde in life and in death.

Mr. P introduced the film as an anti-establishment film from the 1960's about anti-establishment figures from the 30's, but suggested that the film's treatment of Bonnie and Clyde is much more complex that adulation of them as foes of the established order and frinds of the common people.


Tuesday, January 25

Students took the final examination.