Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, March 14

We finished watching The Battleship Potemkin (Parts 4 & 5), after which students wrote down at least three similarities and three differences between that film and The Birth of A Nation and we shared what people had written about both form and content. We remarked upon their similarity as political propaganda about rebellions and their difference in which side (ruling class or underclass) each supported. We recorded their similar use of editing and also how much further Eisenstein took editing techniques he had largely learned from Griffith.

HW due Wednesday:
Review the white and blue handouts assigned for today and read the green and yellow ones.