Revolutionary Cinema – Class Thursday Sept. 17

On Thursday we will continue our work on Revolutionary Cinema and prepare for the next round of posts. We will finish watching Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and discuss the film using Dziga Vertov’s “We: Variant of a Manifesto” (RR, pp. 365-369); Trotsky, “Vodka, the Church, and the Cinema,” and Blyakin’s “The Little Red Devils” (MC pp. 36-52) Please complete these in advance and bring them with you to class.  The “Socialist Cinema” module of 17 Moments in Soviet History is also quite useful.