Jun 7, 20202 min readFinal Week!One of the films that we watched this week was Different Than the Others, a film that I was lucky enough to learn about in my German Film...
Jun 1, 20202 min readWeek 8This week we learned about Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. I feel as though the wonder and whimsy that is brought to the screen by...
May 24, 20202 min readWeek 7The films I was Born, But... and The Great Train Robbery both use classic techniques contributing to the development narrative cinema to...
May 17, 20202 min readWeek 6This week we watched The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915), a film that is shocking not only because of its horrifically disgusting...
May 10, 20201 min readWeek 5Films like Les Vampires and The Perils of Pauline challenge gender roles in quite a few ways. The first example of what Shelly Stamp...
May 3, 20202 min readWeek 4This week I’m going to discuss Dreyer’s Vampyr and how it uses hybridized techniques linked to the cinema of attractions to explore...
Apr 6, 20202 min readWeek 1This week we watched Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat Station (Lumiere Brothers, 1895), The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger,...
Apr 6, 20202 min readWeek 2This week we watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligeri (Robert Weine, 1920), The Firemen of Folies-Bergere (with Josephine Baker), Sandow...
Apr 6, 20201 min readWeek 3This week we watched "View From an Engine Front", "The Kiss in The Tunnel", "The Kiss" and "What Happened in The Tunnel" Each of these...