Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, November 4


We went over both of yesterday's handouts.  Mr. P shared his highlighting of key passages in the excerpts on Caligari from Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler, and he pledged that the quiz on German Expressionism would cover only these passages.  Similarly, he said that the boldface passages in the other handout -- the entry on Expressionism from the Encyclopedia Britannica -- would be the source of any questions on the quiz pertaining to that document.


Next, we numbered on the Expressionism handout eleven Expressionist artists from Vincent Van Gogh to Otto Dix, and we looked at reproductions of works -- primarily oil paintings and woodblock prints -- from the first eight.