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Section C: Film Movements - Silent Cinema (single-film study)
- One Week (1920), American Silent Comedy
- The Scarecrow (1920), American Silent Comedy
- The ‘High Sign’ (1921), American Silent Comedy
- Cops (1922) (Keaton, US), American Silent Comedy
- Strike (Eisenstein, USSR, 1924), Soviet Montage
- Sunrise (Murnau, US, 1927), German Expressionism (Coming soon)
- Spies (Lang, Germany, 1928), German Expressionism
- Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, USSR, 1928) Constructivism and modernism
- A Propos de Nice (Vigo, France, 1930), Constructivism and modernism
Context
There’s an idea (elegantly expressed by the novelist Italo Calvino) that’s worth engaging with and returning to quite often in relation to the films that we study at A Level and it’s this: that a classic is a story that has not yet finished with what it has to say to an audience. The film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is one such film ‘classic’.…
