Friends:

In connection with Dr. Victoria Steinberg's University Honors course, Film
Studies: A Survey of Western Cinema, the UHON Program invites members of the
UTC community to attend a series of weekly film screenings. All screenings
are free, and will take place Sunday evenings during the Fall term, at 7:30
in Brock 201.

Upcoming:

September 5:
Dziga Vertov, _The Man with the Movie Camera_ a.k.a. Chelovek s
kinoapparatom
(Soviet Union, 1928)

This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the
Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a
depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editing of the film is
documented. We often see the cameraman who is purportedly making the film,
but we rarely, if ever, see any of the footage he seems to be in the act of
shooting! Vertov's film gives us a dazzling sense of the cinematic eye.

(Summary written by George S. Davis)

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September 12:
Fritz Lang, _M_ (Germany, 1931)

A psychotic child murderer stalks a German city, and despite an exhaustive
investigation fueled by public hysteria and outcry, the police have been
unable to find him. But the police crackdown does have one side-effect: it
makes it nearly impossible for the organized criminal underground to
operate. So they decide that the only way to get the police off their backs
is to catch the murderer themselves. Besides, he is giving them a bad name.

(Summary written by Ken Yousten)


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Dr. Gregory O'Dea
UC Foundation Associate Professor of English
Assistant Director of University Honors
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee USA