Second Meeting: Arnheim’s Film as Art

Arnheim’s Bio on Wikipedia

Interview with Arnheim

Videos

Charlie Chaplin in The Immigrant (1917, sorry no sound)

Sergei Eisenstein’s The General Line (1929)

The “stairs scene” from King Vidor’s The Crowd (1928)

Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1928, no sound either)

Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Mother (1926)

See you Wednesday 15 April 2015 at 2pm Jarman Studio 6.

 

“Rembrandt-lighting” in The Warrens of Virginia (dir. Cecil B. Demille, 1915)

First Meeting: Hugo Münsterberg’s The Photoplay

The Film Studies Reading Group is scheduled to have its first meeting on Thursday at 2pm 2 April 2015. The Reading Group is a biweekly meeting (i.e. every other week), intended for all Postgrads (including MA and PhD students) and Faculty with an interest in reading primary literature within the realm of Film Studies.

For the first meeting, we have agreed to read Hugo Münsterberg‘s 1916 The Photoplay: A Psychological Study, which is available as a free .pdf, eBook, and Kindle from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15383).

At the first meeting, the next readings will be discussed and agreed upon.  Room is Jarman 5.

Links to Relevant Videos