Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, March 27

We read and talked about the "Pig and Pepper" chapter of Alice in Wonderland. Students wrote down what they thought the original poem which "Speak roughly to your little boy" parodies, and we discussed Alice as social satire, and what constitutes satire generally.

At the end of class we watched five minutes of the 1966 BBC-TV film of Alice directed by Jonathan Miller.

Mr. Potratz announced that students will be required soon to write a paper comparing Carroll's Alice with either the BBC film or the Disney animated version.