This essay requires you to watch a movie and use several assigned readings. Please only make an offer if you are willing to watch the movie and use assigned readings to answer the below question. You don't need to use external sources.
Reading Report Question:
What, according to Kracauer, are the “basic properties” of film (as distinguished from “technical properties”) and what does this mean for our conception of the “art” of cinema? Refer to Paisan and any other relevant films or readings from previous weeks.
Screening: Paisà / Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946, Italy; 2 hrs., 6 mins.)
Reading: Siegfried Kracauer, “Basic Concepts,” in Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality.
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