Category: Film

Film: Titanic
For this paper you will take an outside film approved by your instructor and analyze it according to ONE lens (race, class, gender OR sexual orientation), using a minimum of three anthology articles to support your claims.
This paper is critically important to fulfilling many of your student credits (“Y” credit, Gordon Rule credit, 3000/4000-level course credit) required for graduation.
Failure to submit your paper has severe consequences. This paper is the basis for earning the “Y” credit and Gordon Rule credit. Without this assignment, you cannot earn these credits, regardless of any other work completed for the class. To receive credit, the paper must earn at least a C-.
Your paper will be primarily graded on three criteria: 1) the clarity and conciseness of your writing; 2) proper use of the sources in your paper; and, 3) the ability to identify an issue of race, class, gender and/or sexuality presented in the film and synthesize the arguments as appropriate to the topic of your paper.
More information may be found on the following pages. Please read them carefully. The Grading Rubric explains the criteria for grading your paper and provides a check list. The Assignment explains the purpose and mechanics of the paper assignment.
In addition, please adhere to the following formatting:
Papers must be at least 1,500 words
The word limit does not include Works Cited page, footnotes, endnotes or header
Provide citations for anything you cite (Chicago or MLA style)
Do not use any sources that are not in your Anthology or the Belton textbook
No internet sources are allowed
Papers will be typed, double-spaced, in a 12-point font, and have 1 inch margins
Write only in present tense.
Double space your paper.
Use character names when discussing character actions and actor names to discuss actor actions  (Johnny Depp acts well, Captain Jack Sparrow seems crazy to all who view him.)
Always cite author ideas as well as quotations.
ALWAYS include a works cited page.
Italicize all film titles.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
You might want to think of your thesis in terms of the articles and then apply it to scenes from the film. For example, start with how hegemony uses class to maintain its status. Wealthy men are “gentleman,” and working class men are there to either serve the wealthy or stay out of their privileged spaces. This is enforced by both ISAs and RSAs. Identify them on the ship. I also think you need at least one point that looks at the intersection of class and gender. How are the choices different for Rose, Jack, and Cal? That will help you consider aspects of social capital and social gravity (McNamee & Miller) as well as the extent to which Rose must trade power for patronage, regardless of which man she chooses (Risman).
ALSO USE THE ATTACHED OUTLINE AS GUIDELINE FOR THE PAPER 

How has the migration of documentary to online forums and platforms changed the nature of our engagement and expectations of documentary practice?
Your essay should comprise approximately 2000 words, excluding bibliography.
Your essay should present a reasoned and illustrated argument in response to the question posed.
Please ensure that you back up your points with precise examples taken from films and other primary sources as well as from secondary sources such as academic books and articles.
You must provide clear references to all primary and secondary sources.
This is especially true of all information and opinions derived from the Internet; these should be checked for accuracy with special attention.
Include bibliography (Harvard Referencing)
DO NOT USE A.I

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What do you think of care ethics? Why does it have to be wonder woman and not bad who engage in care ethics is this just a different king of sexism who wrote the script does this affect the content?

1. Why did the sound stage become a necessary component of film productions during the sound era?
2. What is the concept of ‘mono no aware’ and how does it relate to the films of Yasujiro Ozu?
3. For what reason did the western allies take over Germany’s, and to a lesser extent, Japan’s film industries after the war? Consider the work of filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in your response.
4. What is significant about Nicholas Ray’s western, Johnny Guitar (1954), specifically with regards to portrayal of gender in the film? (start with reviewing The Story of Film pp 231-232, and feel free to search online further.)

FILM OPTIONS:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(Gondry, 2004)
Being John Malkovich (Jones, 1999)
Oppenheimer (Nolan, 2023) 
Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998)
The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999)

Analyze and critique The Gold Rush. Craft a paper in which you create an analysis of the film’s story and how it is presented cinematographically. The point here is to offer your own analytical insights after critically viewing a film. This should be a 3 page paper, not including the Works Cited page. 
Refer to the readings and sample essays in Gocsik and Monahan to help you with this first writing assignment.
Refer to the Glossary to help you with your analysis. (The Glossary can be found under Course Menu in the navigation bar.)
Remember that your analysis needs a thesis sentence to focus your insights around a central idea. For examples of analytical thesis sentences, review Thesis Characteristics in the Empire State University Online Writing Center. You may also wish to use the Creating Your Thesis resource.
Do not write a literary analysis, nor merely retell the story.
Remember your research from the first module regarding good vs. bad research!
Always use proper academic formatting and a scholarly approach to your assignments.
Check spelling, grammar and mechanics.
Write film titles properly in your paper; use italics or, in this course, you may also underline the name of a film.
All papers should be 12 pt. type, double spaced.
All of your Written Assignments must include at least two scholarly sources AND must include direct reference to your learning from the Belton and/or Corrigan texts assigned for each module.
All of your research research (scholarly or non-scholarly sources) and any ideas you got from from course texts MUST be cited in all of your written work using MLA, APA, or Chicago Style. Written work without proper referencing will be returned. Work in which you present the ideas of other people as your own ideas without quotation marks and in-text citations will receive a failing grade.
If you have questions about this, please do not hesitate to reach out and schedule a time to meet with me.
Remember you can use the Ongoing Film Discussion area to help you expand your thinking and share your ideas.
Review the course Syllabus (Written Assignment section) and Tips for Stronger Papers to provide you with further information about essay expectations.

Your paper is a short collaborative paper with your partner. It will focus on the film Guess Who’s coming to Dinner. It will incorporate at least one secondary source.
The paper should focus on communicating one idea that the film expresses. This short three-paragraph essay should include an introduction, complete with a proper academic thesis; a body, which fully explores your subject using at least one secondary source; a conclusion that gracefully exits the reader out of the text.  (Please do not use in summary or in conclusion. Please think about what you have argued and discuss the relevance of this discussion.)
The first page of your paper should include a proper heading: your class, your names, and the date on the left hand side of the page at the top. You will then skip a few lines and begin with your title. You will begin your discussion on that same page. Your paragraphs should be full paragraphs of approximately 150-200 words.
Grading criteria:
Have you followed directions?
Do you have an appropriate introduction that appropriately introduces the subject?
Do you have a thesis that makes a claim and justifies that claim?
Is the body of your paper relevant to your thesis and do your sentences flow smoothly?
Have you used your secondary source appropriately? Have you let your reader know how you are using this source?
Have you documented appropriately?
Does your conclusion move the discussion forward and out?

Instructions for Media Diaries
Beginning the first week of class, you are to keep a weekly diary of media that you
watched or listened to that week (clarification: one individual program, news
article, or film per week). Each entry (300-500 words) should include the title, any
production information including director, writer, leading actors (or anchors,
reporters), producer or show runner, producing organization (newspaper, studio or
broadcast network or cable channel), as well as your observations regarding genre,
thematic content, style, and the targeted audience (whom the media is designed to
appeal to the most.) Please date your entry to reflect the time of viewing. There will
be a preliminary submission and review of these diaries in week 6, and the final
diaries are to be submitted together with the final reports by June 13 th 10 a.m.
How to select programs or films for viewing: please select a film, television
program, radio show, podcast or print medium that we have not covered in class. A
list of possible sources is provided in “Helpful Links” on Canvas. Your
selections should feature one or more of the following: 1) Latinx-related themes; 2)
Latinx-created (written, designed, or directed) media; and/or 3) Latinx performers.
The more Latinx related the show or article, the better, but it is also of interest to
comment on the representation of Latinxs in the general media, regardless of the
identity of the creator or producer. Please refrain from surfing Youtube, unless the
film or program is rare and cannot be accessed by any other means. You may also
choose to comment on artisanal or self-produced “home videos” shared on the web.

write a 4-5 page formal analysis to explain how these filmmakers are representing “contested territories”, (borders, checkpoints, etc) through aesthetics and/or production practices. 
In your analysis, I encourage you to compare and contrast different stylistic choices and/or production practices that are used by these filmmakers to represent the sociopolitical issues that you have chosen to focus on as well as how these sociopolitical issues are relevant to each respective country/region/era, etc. In doing so, you may analyze how each director represents the same/similar contested territories (including any relevant sociopolitical issues) using different aesthetics and/or production practices. Alternatively, you may compare how the same/similar aesthetics and/or production practices are used to represent different contested territories (including any relevant sociopolitical issues) in these films.
The 2 films to analyze are:
1. The Lives of Others: https://vimeo.com/video/137187381
Password: Stasi
2. Omar: https://vimeo.com/video/181364162
Password: walls
No outside sources are needed. The only resources used will be the following.
1. Thirteen Questions With Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck,
Writer and Director of The Lives Of Others (See attachment)
2. Omar Comments from Hany Abu Assad. (See attachment)

1. This assignment requires you to submit a 2-to-3-page double-spaced preliminary outline of your term end research paper. 2 points.
2. What is the main question that interests you based on your annotated bibliography and filmography? Be as specific or detailed as possible. Your aim here is to indicate to the reader that you have done your reading, watched the movies you have included in your filmography, and have considered a range of issues, in order to arrive at a topic or theme. 3 points.
3. Which readings and films do you think are most relevant for addressing your question, and why? 3 points.
4. What will be your method and approach to addressing your question? 4 points.
This proposal is NOT the place to write a summary of your paper in advance. It IS an occasion to tell the reader what question your paper will address, and how it will go about addressing it.