Intro to Cinema Studies, The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1924)
For this assignment, you will examine the use of lighting, mise-en-scene, and editing in The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1924). Your task for this paper is to compose an argument regarding how and why the film employs certain filmmaking techniques and to what effect. To justify your claims, you must engage with Siegfried Kracauer’s … Read more