Packet 3: Tossup 3

Early in his career, this theorist drew on commedia dell’arte tropes to stage the play Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man. In a lecture series, this theorist insisted that Paul Robeson should wield a candelabrum to star in a film about Jean-Jacques Dessalines (“day-sah-LEEN”). This theorist remarked that “movies were boiling” in the kettle described in the opening line of The Cricket in the Hearth, in an essay positing (15[1])that Charles Dickens was the strongest influence on D. W. Griffith. In an essay on cinema’s “fourth dimension,” this theorist (15[1])analyzed the emotions induced by haiku and (*) kabuki. This theorist directed a film that inspired the name of an arts journal founded by Rosalind (10[1])Krauss and Annette (10[1])Michelson. This theorist used the terms “intellectual,” “overtonal,” “tonal,” “rhythmic,” and (10[1])“metric” (10[1])to describe the five types of a concept he developed (10[1])with peers like (10[1])Vsevolod Pudovkin. (10[1])For 10 points, what theorist edited the “Odessa steps” (10[1])montage (10[1])in his film (10[1])Battleship Potemkin? (10[2])■END■ (10[1])

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