Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, March 10

We followed up yesterday's post-Birth of a Nation, Betty Boop discussion with images of the great black vaudevillian Bert Williams both in and out of blackface, and with "Clayton Bigby, Black White Supremacist." We then talked for some time about the complexities of racial ideology in the U.S.

Afterwards, we watched the first section of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin, stopping just before the mutiny sequence.