Revision Elements
Characteristic aesthetic qualities of Keaton (mechanical comedy, deadpan, acrobatics) and American Silent Comedy (looking closely at all aspects of film form and creators as auteurs)
Charlie Chaplin
Harold Lloyd
Keaton helped shape the movement.
The Star System of Hollywood, Arbuckle scandal
Modernism
The wider context (German Expressionism - Nosferatu 1922, Soviet Montage - The Man With The Movie Camera 1929)
Art movements (e.g. Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism) or a broader cultural shift (Modernism)
Andre Bazin - Expressive vs Realist
Lumiere Brothers
Georges Melies.
Vaudeville
Cinema of Attractions
Slapstick
Chase and trick films
(Next week...)
Rube Goldberg
Flatpack house
