cinema class
Watch a film from the Film Viewing Master List – for this week’s Discussion Board assignment, it can be from either the 1920s or 1930s. You must then answer 2 questions that relate to the topic and the film you watched from the list provided. Take a little time after you watch your film to search on the web, read other sources, consider the questions, watch other films or clips, talk to people about the film, consider it in historical context and think about your personal views on the assignment. Then, when you are ready, you mustPost your answers to the Discussion by Saturday11:59PM. Answer each question in a couple of paragraphs or so. Use specific details to make your points and be prepared to elaborate on them during the discussions if others ask further questions about what you wrote. To get the full points, you must clearly put the film title at the very top, clearly number and separate your answers, state a clear thesis about your opinion, cite specific examples from the film you watched or real world experiences – preferably your own – to bolster your ideas, correctly use any outside research to further prove your opinions, and make sure you correctly employ the terms and concepts from the textbook and online lectures to back up your points. You should do some outside research to fully think through and competently answer the questions. You must describe any outside information and provide specific links about where to find it (a website, article, film or video clip on YouTube, news story or explain how it is a personal experience or how it happened to someone you know, etc.). You must type your answers directly into the dialogue box for the Discussions – NO attachments are accepted in this class.
HERE ARE THE MOVIE CHOICES, PLEASE PICK A MOVIE AND ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS WITH 3 PARAGRAPHS EACH..
Flesh and the Devil 1927 Clarence Brown
The Diary of a Lost Girl 1929 G.W. Pabst
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923 Wallace Worsley
The Sheik 1921 George Melford
Die Nibelungen (including Siegfried and Kriemhild’s Revenge]) 1924 Fritz Lang
The Freshman 1925 Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer
The Mark of Zorro 1920 Fred Niblo
Orphans of the Storm 1921 D.W. Griffith
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg 1927 Ernst Lubitsch
Cops 1922 Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline
It 1927 Clarence Badger
Queen Kelly 1928 Erich von Stroheim
Destiny 1921 Fritz Lang
A Woman of Paris 1923 Charles Chaplin
Variety 1925 E.A. Dupont
The Joyless Street 1924 G.W. Pabst
The King of Kings 1927 Cecil B. DeMille
College 1927 James W. Horne
Spies 1928 Fritz Lang
Three Ages 1923 Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline
The End of St. Petersburg 1927 Vsevolod I. Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks 1924 Lev Kuleshov
Phantom 1922 F.W. Murnau
Erotikon 1929 Gustav Machaty
The Bat 1926 Roland West
The Seashell and the Clergyman 1928 Germaine Dulac
Kino-Eye 1924 Dziga Vertov
The Manxman 1929 Alfred Hitchcock
Zvenigora 1927 Alexander Dovzhenko
Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang
The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau
Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau
The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene
The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov
Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim
Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton
Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance
Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty
The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau
The Crowd 1928 King Vidor
The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin
Pandora’s Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst
The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland
The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström
The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor
The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian
The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh
Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau
October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang
The Freshman 1925 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner
Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 Walter Ruttmann
The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick
Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton
Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo
Wings 1927 William A. Wellman
Siegfried 1924 Fritz Lang
Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen
Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Jean Epstein
Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim
The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin
The Iron Horse 1924 John Ford
The Golem 1920 Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
Kriemhild’s Revenge 1924 Fritz Lang
Way Down East 1920 D.W. Griffith
Seventh Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage
The Phantom Chariot 1921 Victor Sjöström
The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton
The Last Command 1928 Josef von Sternberg
Storm over Asia 1928 Vsevolod Pudovkin
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Lotte Reiniger
Mother 1926 Vsevolod Pudovkin
La Roue 1923 Abel Gance
Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton
The Lost World 1925 Harry O. Hoyt
The Ten Commandments 1923 Cecil B. DeMille
Blackmail 1929 Alfred Hitchcock
The Docks of New York 1928 Josef von Sternberg
Hallelujah! 1929 King Vidor
Underworld 1927 Josef von Sternberg
The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 Rex Ingram
The Smiling Madame Beudet 1923 Germaine Dulac
The Lodger 1927 Alfred Hitchcock
The Wedding March 1928 Erich von Stroheim
answer any 2 questions with 3 paragraphs each..
1. Does the film show a world of rich and sophisticated glamor or poverty and gritty realism? Pick out a scene and discuss how you feel about the film’s attitude toward social classes.
2. Discuss how the film depicts the morals of the time – analyze scenes that take on taboos or moralize about sins.
3. Think about how the film uses sound – does it seem to be a simple gimmick, or is the sound used for complex feelings and ideas? Focus on a scene and compare how the use of sound makes the film better or worse than if the film were silent.
4. Does the film have elaborate stunts and spectacles? If so, analyze one scene and discuss how well it is done for the era.
5. Discuss the film and its attitude toward race or ethnicity. Focus on a scene and analyze whether you think the depiction seems negative or not for that era.
6. Does the film have a specific political or moral message, or a hidden symbolic message? Analyze a scene and discuss what you think about it.
7. Is the film an art film made for its own sake? Discuss a scene and explain if you think this is fun to watch or you have a problem with it.
8. Identify the genre of the film. Pick out a scene and discuss how this film seems to meet your expectations and hopes for that genre, if it twists or updates it, or if it falls short.
9. What is the attitude of the film toward men and women? Focus on a scene and discuss if it seems to fit the times and what you feel about it.
10. What is the attitude of the film toward sex, violence and crime? Analyze a scene and discuss if it seems realistic or warped to you.
