If you've seen these films, the assignment is on these films.

Week Thirteen Guided Inquiry

4/5/19: Rhetoric of Film

1) Watch at least 10 short films from the Edison Manufacturing Archive and post a short analysis of your selections. You are welcome to post stills from the films that interest you the most as evidence (but don’t forget to analyze them)

2) Watch at least 5 short films from the Lumiere archive. “Workers” and “The Arrival of a Train” are required. Post a short analysis of your selections. You are welcome to post stills from the films that interest you the most as evidence (but don’t forget to analyze them)

3) Analyze the style/rhetoric of Metropolis using concepts, as far as you understand them, from Eisenstein’s Film Form. You are welcome to post stills from the films that interest you the most as evidence (but don’t forget to analyze them)

4) Discuss one contemporary example (i.e. from films made in the last 20 years) of

each of the following: a) an aspect of Gunning’s cinema of attraction, and b) an instance of Eisensteinian montage. You are welcome to post stills from the films that interest you the most as evidence (but don’t forget to analyze them)