Friday, November 12
We watched the first half-hour of Fritz Lang's masterpiece, M, starring Peter Lorre as the child murderer Hans Beckert.
HW due Tuesday:
Quiz over German Expressionism. Study the handouts and review the images on the class website, room301.org.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Tuesday, November 9
To enlarge our experience of German Expressionist cinema, we watched an additional scene from Nosferatu, then devoted the remainder of the period to key excerpts from Fritz Lang's futuristic epic Metropolis (1925).
Wednesday: Fritz Lang's M.
Monday, November 8
We reviewed the assigned handout on German Expressionism by David Hudson, then watched selected scene's from the original Dracula movie, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.
To enlarge our experience of German Expressionist cinema, we watched an additional scene from Nosferatu, then devoted the remainder of the period to key excerpts from Fritz Lang's futuristic epic Metropolis (1925).
Wednesday: Fritz Lang's M.
Monday, November 8
We reviewed the assigned handout on German Expressionism by David Hudson, then watched selected scene's from the original Dracula movie, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Friday, November 5
Students received another handout (8 pp.) on German Expressionism, this one by David Hudson.
Students were shown the new web page added to the class website (room301.org) containing the Expressionist images viewed in class yesterday and today.
We completed our viewing of those images with the compassionate, grief-suffused woodcuts and charcoal drawings of Kaethe Kollwitz and the acidic, venomous social satire of George Grosz and Otto Dix.
HW due Monday:
Read the David Hudson handout and highlight or underline what you consider to be key passages.
Students received another handout (8 pp.) on German Expressionism, this one by David Hudson.
Students were shown the new web page added to the class website (room301.org) containing the Expressionist images viewed in class yesterday and today.
We completed our viewing of those images with the compassionate, grief-suffused woodcuts and charcoal drawings of Kaethe Kollwitz and the acidic, venomous social satire of George Grosz and Otto Dix.
HW due Monday:
Read the David Hudson handout and highlight or underline what you consider to be key passages.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Wednesday, November 3
We watched 25 minutes more of Caligari, then came up with adjectives ranging from distorted through trippy to nightmarish to describe what we had seen. Next, students received two handouts, one on Caligari specifically (from Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler) and one on Expressionism from the Encyclopedia Brittanica. We read briefly from each.
HW due Thursday:
Read both handouts.
We watched 25 minutes more of Caligari, then came up with adjectives ranging from distorted through trippy to nightmarish to describe what we had seen. Next, students received two handouts, one on Caligari specifically (from Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler) and one on Expressionism from the Encyclopedia Brittanica. We read briefly from each.
HW due Thursday:
Read both handouts.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Monday, November 1
First, we watched the last few minutes on The Man with the Movie Camera again, this time with Yuri Tsivian's commentary, which among other things holds the scene with the children watching the Chinese magician to be both an example of the film as actuality -- life caught unawares -- and of the film as itself a magic show.
Next we watched twenty minutes og Abel Gance's 1927 Napoleeon. As a romantic fiction film and as an exposition of the Great Man school of history, Napoleon embodies what Vertov and the Kinoks opposed, but as, a masterpiece of innovative montage it is in places The Man with a Movie Camera's equal.
Tuesday:
Montage quiz over Potemkin, The Man with a Movie Camera, Napoleon, and associated handouts.
First, we watched the last few minutes on The Man with the Movie Camera again, this time with Yuri Tsivian's commentary, which among other things holds the scene with the children watching the Chinese magician to be both an example of the film as actuality -- life caught unawares -- and of the film as itself a magic show.
Next we watched twenty minutes og Abel Gance's 1927 Napoleeon. As a romantic fiction film and as an exposition of the Great Man school of history, Napoleon embodies what Vertov and the Kinoks opposed, but as, a masterpiece of innovative montage it is in places The Man with a Movie Camera's equal.
Tuesday:
Montage quiz over Potemkin, The Man with a Movie Camera, Napoleon, and associated handouts.
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