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SHERLOCK, JR. and THE GENERAL
  • Screening: Week Two
  • Reading: Mast and Rubinstein
  • Discussion questions:
1) Mast reading:

A. How does he compare Keaton and Chaplin?

B. Mast says that a consistent motif is the elimination of all inhuman definitions of worth. What does he mean?

2) Rubenstein reading:

A. What is the Thing/Things, and in what sense is machinery a manifestation of the Thing?

B. How does he read the recruiting scene and what does that tell you about Keaton's comedy?