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Weimar Cinema – Berlin: Die Symphonie der Gro ßstadt

Weimar Cinema – Berlin: Die Symphonie der Gro ßstadt. HONORS 280 – Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Final Project. Reminder – Final Projects: Friday, September 12 – Initial indication of your film choice for final project. (Final Project Assignments: Luke and Melody).

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Weimar Cinema – Berlin: Die Symphonie der Gro ßstadt

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  1. Weimar Cinema – Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt HONORS 280 – Wednesday, September 3, 2014

  2. Final Project • Reminder – Final Projects: Friday, September 12 – Initial indication of your film choice for final project. (Final Project Assignments: Luke and Melody)

  3. Please turn in your Film Response Sheet for Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt

  4. Preview of Class on Wednesday • Schwarzfahrer(1993): Another cinematic take on the city of Berlin. • Important: No preparation on your part, i.e. we will watch and discuss the film in class.

  5. Berlin:DieSymphonie der Großstadt

  6. Berlin:DieSymphonie der Großstadt • Five-Minute Writing – First Impressions: Describe the general sense for the city of Berlin that Ruttmann’s film gave you.

  7. Cinematic Portrayal of a City: Brainstorming on the Board • What aspects of life in Berlin did Ruttman include? • What aspects seem to you to be missing?

  8. Cinematic Portrayal of a City • What aspects of life in Berlin did Ruttman include? • What aspects seemed to you to be missing? So what?

  9. So . . . What do the film experts have to say about Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt?

  10. Film Scholar Sabine hake on German film in the 1920’s . . . • In the work of Walter Ruttmann, the synergies among painting, photography, and film can be traced from the abstract quality of the Opus-films (1918-23) to the celebration of urban life in Berlin, die Symphonie der Grossstadt (Berlin, Symphony of the Big City, 1927), the famous Berlin film that served as inspiration for many later city films. (41) Source: Hake, Sabine. German National Cinema. 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge, 2002. Print.

  11. Giving Substance to Hake’s Characterization • Brainstorming: What evidence of the “synergies among painting, photography, and film” did you see in the film?

  12. Close Scene Analysis • ACT IV (00:36:00-00:39:39): Watch the following clip and note the images and their chronology. Act IV (00:36:00-00:39:39)

  13. Close Scene Analysis • Editing: What does the sequencing and stringing together of these images communicate? (TIP: Since this is a silent film, editing perhaps becomes the main “language” of the film.

  14. Weimar Republic:Establishing the context for the film

  15. Die goldenenZwanziger – The Roaring Twenties • You’ve read Brockmann’s brief characterization of this decade in Germany. What was the social tenor of the country at that time? What do you associate with this time period? • What images are used in the following painting by Otto Dix and what message do they seem to be sending about life in the Weimar Republic?

  16. Die Großstadt – Otto Dix

  17. TschüßbisFreitag!

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