Modern Humanities Week 14:

Representing the Modern: Representations of the Human Spirit

Visual Experience in the Modern Age

• Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
  • Commentary on "The Work of Art..."
  • Benjamin and the "Work of Art..."
• Camille Paglia, "The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age" - why students understand moving images but not still ones.

More on Photography

• Feldman, Good vs. Great Photographs
• Barrett, Types of Photographs
• Ethnographic Photography
• Voice of the Shuttle Photography Page

Film and Modernity

• Watching Film: A Checklist
• Themes of Modernity in Early Film
• Early Cinema
  • Early Cinema.com
• Melies
  • A Trip to the Moon (1902)
• The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, Edison 1903)
  • Review
  • Flynn, Peter, "The Silent Western as Mythmaker"
• Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915)
  • Birth of a Nation site (download of the movie)
  • Birth of a Nation study guide
  • Birth of a Nation review
  • Greatest Films review
• Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1919)
  • Caligari Plot (Ingrid Richter)
  • Caligari Review
  • Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
• Nosferatu (Wilhelm Murnau, 1922)
  • Roger Ebert's review
  • Shot sequence
• Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1925)
  • Metropolis Bibliography
  • Metropolis site
  • Metropolis walkthrough
  • Roger Ebert's review
• Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
  • Battleship Potemkin site
  • Battleship Potemkin download
  • Roger Ebert's review
• Charlie Chaplin
  • Charlie Chaplin essays
  • Charlie Chaplin.com
• Leni Riefenstahl
  • Links
  • Triumph of the Will
  • Olympia
• Orson Welles
  • Citizen Kane