Films:
Musketeers of Pig Alley (Griffith 1912) DVD 536
Broken Blossoms (Griffith 1919) DVD 244
Reading (to be done by October 1):
Tom Gunning, "D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film," in course reader.
Vsevold Pudovkin, "On Editing," in course reader.
Paper topic (paper due October 2. Graduate students send papers via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net; undergraduates send papers also cc to TA Masahiko Fox at gracefulbrute@gmail.com):
Write again about the scene you
explored last week, this time focusing on the editing. Instead of describing
the content of each shot, talk about how the shots work together. The crucial
questions are: how long is each shot, and why? And why do you think the
filmmakers change from one camera position to the next in the course of the scene
– what does the audience get from these shifts in perspective? Finally, how
noticeable are these cuts as you watch the film?
