MARCH 4

Films:

Daisies (Chytilová 1966) DVD 571      

Simon of the Desert (Buñuel 1965) DVD 3281

Duck Amuck (Jones 1953) Blu-Ray 114 disc one

Reading (to be done by March 10): 

Małgorzata Radkiewicz. “Angry  young girls:  Gender representations in  Věra Chytilová's Sedmikrásky and Pasti, pasti, pastičky.” (online)

Papers due March 11 by 4 p.m. Graduates email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu; undergraduates email paper to FilmHistoryTA@gmail.com:

Discuss the final scenes of Daisies. How do you read them in relationship to the film’s first 70 minutes? Pay particular attention to the scene in the water that begins the sequence, the dialogue in the cleaning scene, the short montage that follows it, and the final text.