Silent Film Essays (Examples)
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The Battleship Potemkin
Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film, produced during the Soviet era, depicts the mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin from the year 1905, prior to the Soviet takeover of the … prior to the Soviet takeover of the state and seen as a foreshadowing of the wider revolution that was to come. In the film, the mutineers/rebels are depicted as heroes, embodying the spirit of the fight against Tsarist oppression that the good comrades of the Soviet world … especially since the Soviet Revolution was largely Jewish in nature and Eisenstein himself was Jewish. Thus, there is a natural sympathy between the film and the subject. Old World Russia was not beloved by Revolutionary Russia, and the film suggests that the reason was a lack of respect for Russia’s common people—the working class, the everyday soldiers treated worse than dogs by … worse than dogs by the authorities. It is essentially Orwell’s Animal……
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Works Cited
Bascomb, Neal. Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Eisenstein, Sergei. The Battleship Potemkin.
Neff, Taylor. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Propaganda on the Big Screen: Film in the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1936.\\\\\\\\\\\\" The FGCUStudent Research Journal 3.2 (2017).
Osborn, Andrew. “Potemkin: the mutiny, the movie and the myth.” The Independent, June 14, 2005. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/potemkin-the-mutiny-the-movie-and-the-myth-225737.html
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Social Distancing As A New Normal Is Enslavement
… or about health or about flattening the curve, or about preventing the hospitals from being overwhelmed or about preventing the young from becoming silent spreaders and endangering the old—it is about enslavement. Ever since the Emancipation Declaration, it has been their intention to renew the institution of … do as you are told? I say enough. I say that we all must say enough to everyone because the longer we are silent and docile, the more idiotic our world becomes. Protest! Revolt! Walk out! What is the worst that can happen? They will just send ……
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