FEBRUARY 4

Film:

Night of the Hunter (Laughton 1955) Blu-Ray 140

Excerpts:

Ruggles Of Red Gap (McCarey 1935) Blu-Ray/DVD 285 - region protected Blu-Ray; you must use DVD in film library (1:18 to 9:48)

Way Down East (Griffith 1920) Blu-Ray 113 45:02 to 58:00  

Out Of The Past DVD 1056 (15:00 to 25:03)

Reading (to be done by February 10): 

Robin Wood. "Charles Laughton."  (in course reader)


Paper topic (paper due February 11 by 4 p.m. Graduates email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu; undergraduates email paper to FilmHistoryTA@gmail.com):


Discuss whatever you find most interesting in a single scene of Night of the Hunter. Read today’s handout thoroughly: I expect your work to be concrete and built around detailed description of the scene’s visual elements, performances, etc.