Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, March 21

We returned to our analysis of the Odessa Steps sequence in Potemkin, then watched a clip from The Fast and the Furious which manipulates time in a similar way for dramatic effect. (There's nothing new under the sun.) Finally we turned to Eisenstein's invocation of the Marxist dialectic as a principle of montage (!) as outlined in the yellow handout.

Mr. P announced that there would be no quiz until after we watch and discuss a second Soviet film, The Man with a Movie Camera, at which time there will be a unit test over Soviet montage.

HW due March 31:
First outside viewing paper.