What interests or surprises you about the readings and/or the screening?

Please write a response (around 350 words) to this week’s readings and screening(s). What interests or surprises you about the readings and/or the screening? What did you find yourself agreeing or disagreeing with in the week’s materials? How would you apply concepts from the readings to the week’s film? How does the film illustrate, contradict, or open up new ways of interpreting the readings? How does Sunrise or Sherlock, Jr. relate to Canudo’s ideas about the nature and potential of film, and to his ideals for what film should be like? What can Yasunosuke’s and Münsterberg’s theories of film help us to see about Sunrise or Sherlock, Jr., and what do the films clarify, complicate, or illustrate about the theories? How can we see Solnit’s ideas about the technological annihilation of space and time at play in these films?

These are all suggested approaches to the weekly response. Please feel free to address any, all, or none of them.

Please include at least two discussion questions at the conclusion of your response.

Requirements: 350 words