OCTOBER 3

Films:
Faust (Murnau 1926) DVD 4292
Les Vampires, ep. 2: The Ring That Kills (Feuillade 1916) DVD 1645
Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (Weine 1920) DVD 3299, 38:40-47:44

Reading (to be done by October 9):

Thomas Elsaesser, “Germany: The Weimar Years” and Janet Bergstrom, “Friedrich Wilheim Murnau,” both in course reader.
Ed Gonzalez, http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/les-vampires/592

Paper topic (paper due October 10:

Compare one small aspect of the formal style of Broken Blossoms with the style of either Faust, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari or Les Vampires. Think very small – compare two shots, two performers or two short scenes. Don’t try to do the whole films and their formal styles, just an element you can handle exhaustively in two short pages. And take into account the notes you’ve received on the papers thus far as well as the advice in the handout on writing about film – be as concrete as possible.