Recently we have focused our discussion on Modernist film. Please write an essay explaining what Modernism is and how it relates to realism. Select one modernist film from the list below and write an essay arguing how it enacts and engages with the concepts of modernism.
Is the film Dadist, Surrealist, Expressionist, or Constructivist, and why?
What are the specific traits of that particular modernist genre? What are the effects of the modernist techniques used in the film?
How does the film break with Realist practices (define them) and what are the conceptual or aesthetic consequences of that break?
Please refer to specific scenes and shot sequences from the film to support your answer. Draw upon the readings and the lectures to support your argument.
Films I chose: Robert Weine, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). https://archive.org/details/thecabinetofdrcaligari
I provided the link to the film. I also provided notes, rubric and instruction in the files i’ve added. you can ONLY use notes from the movie and my class notes,
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