Film Studies Daily Log

Tuesday, March 8

We watched the very end of Birth of a Nation. Students took a quiz over the handouts about D.W. Griffith and Reconstruction, and we graded it together.

Next we watched a 1930 staged interview between Grifith and Walter Huston reeking with nostalgia for the Old South and the KKK, and followed that up with "I'll be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You," a Betty Boop cartoon starring Louis Armstrong; we then pondered its rather complex racial attitudes.