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Weimar Cinema & Metropolis

Weimar Cinema & Metropolis. HONORS 280 – Friday, September 12. Final projects: Your Chosen Film. Film Response Sheets: Responding to your Responses. Culture: Religion -- Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3% (Source: CIA World Factbook )

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Weimar Cinema & Metropolis

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  1. Weimar Cinema & Metropolis HONORS 280 – Friday, September 12

  2. Final projects: Your Chosen Film

  3. Film Response Sheets: Responding to your Responses • Culture: • Religion -- Protestant 34%, Roman Catholic 34%, Muslim 3.7%, unaffiliated or other 28.3% (Source: CIA World Factbook) • Genre – Science Fiction, Futuristic movies, etc.>To what degrees does genre allow for universal features that exist above and beyond an individual culture?

  4. Homework Assignment Preview • Yale Film Studies Film Analysis Web Site 2.0 Assignment for Monday, September 15, 2014. (Worksheet is available in our ANGEL space.)

  5. Getting this on your radar . . . • In-Class Writing #1 on Wednesday, September 17, 2014.

  6. Group 4 • To what degree is Metropolis relevant to our fears and dreams today? • What politician currently in office would be most likely to advocate for mandating required viewing of the film? Why?

  7. Small Group Discussion: Picking up where we left off . . . • Documentation of your discussion has been posted in our ANGEL space.

  8. Brockmann on Metropolis and the Weimar REpublic • Take three strolls through the “quote museum”: • Stroll #1: Read the excerpt from the Film Response Sheet you received and place it next to the quote that it fits the best. • Stroll #2: With a partner, select what of the stills from the film and identify the quote that seems most appropriate for it. • Stroll #3: Select a quote that rings most true for you about the significance of Metropolis. Once you’ve selected your quote, “Stand by your quote . . . .” sung to the tune of Tammy Wynnette’s “Stand by Your Man”. 

  9. Brockmann on Metropolis and the Weimar REpublic • What additional specificexamples from the film can you cite that tie specifically to the Brockmann quote you have chosen?

  10. Seeing the Film in the BIG Picture:Die Großstadt vs. Metropolis • What overlap is there between Dix’s depiction of a big city and the depiction of the city in Metropolis? What kind of consensus is there between these two pieces of artwork about the challenges facing Germany at this point in history?

  11. Die Großstadt (1927/28) – Otto Dix

  12. EinSchönes Wochenende! Danke, gleichfalls!

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