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The Film Experience - Lecture 4 (2007): Chaplin, Part II

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture continues discussion of Charlie Chaplin, comparing his films to those of Buster Keaton. Outline: - Keaton vs. Chaplin - Three passages - Cops (1922) - The Gold Rush (1925) - City Lights (1931) - Modern Times ...

The Film Experience - Lecture 19 (2007): Italian ...

The Film Experience - Lecture 19 (2007): Italian Neorealism, Part I

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This session introduces some characteristics of Italian neorealist cinema, especially the 'principle of multiplicity' in which aspects of the film serve multiple functions. Outline - The Opening of Bicycle Thieves - The ...

The Film Experience - Lecture 16 (2007): Film in the 1970s, ...

The Film Experience - Lecture 16 (2007): Film in the 1970s, Part II

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture continues the discussion of transformation and subversion in 1970s films, specifically as embodied in work of director Robert Altman. Outline - Robert Altman (1925-2006) - Career - Defining qualities: - Moral ...

The Film Experience - Lecture 15 (2007): Film in the 1970s, ...

The Film Experience - Lecture 15 (2007): Film in the 1970s, Part I

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture discusses dramatic changes in American film of the late 60s and early 70s: the end of the studio era, social transformation, and television as the new consensus medium. Outline - Transformations and subversion ...

The Exponential Function

Professor Strang explains how the "magic number e" connects to ordinary things like the interest on a bank account. The graph of y = ex has the special property that its slope equals its height (it goes up "exponentially fast"!). This is the great function of calculus. Professor Strang's ...