Component 2c: Silent Cinema

For this part of the course we will be looking at silent cinema from the 1920’s. We will be watching One Week(Buster Keaton, 1920), The Scarecrow(Buster Keaton, 1921), and Cops(Buster Keaton, 1922) and The High Sign(Buster Keaton 1921). We will be assessed on Aesthetics and key elements of film form, and I have looked through past exam questions to see what sort of things will be asked in an exam and what I should be thinking about as we work through this component.