Write a film review about the movie Coco. Briefly summarize the plot and state your opinion on the way the movie portrays Mexican-American culture and themes.
Write a response paper to Youth by Feng Xiaogang. Include plot, characters, and etc.
Overview: In Chuck Klosterman's 2016 NY Times article "Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember?" the author explores the historical significance of Rock, wondering what Rock history will look like hundreds of years into the future. Klosterman presents the idea that all forms of art are eventually represented by a single, wildly popular artist. He uses John Philip Sousa as an example, noting that more than 100 years after his life and popularity, John Philip Sousa now represents the entire genre of marching band music. In examining rock music, Klosterman uses Sousa’s dominance of the marching band genre to guide his quest for the “John Philip Sousa” of Rock.
Prompt: Use Klosterman’s article as a guide to explore any form of artistic expression. Choose a popular artist in a genre you enjoy, whether it be a form of music, film, literature, fashion, technology or other area of creative innovation.
Create a thesis that argues for the enduring popularity of his or her work.
Analyze this person's career:
What have they contributed
Why is it valuable?
Apply Klosterman’s concepts to your analysis and argue in favor of the enduring importance of this person's work:
Why will people of the future will remember this individual as the representative of an entire genre of creativity?
Explain why the artist of your choosing is “the John Philips Sousa” of his or her genre (like the way Klosterman argues that Sousa represents all of marching band music and Bob Marley represents all of reggae).
You may select a popular figure in any of the following fields:
Literature— a story writer, novelist, poet or playwright
Music— a popular musician in any genre
Cinema or Television— an actor, director, creator, or producer
Print media— a traditional or photo journalist
Fashion— a fashion designer
Visual Art: photographer, painter, sculpturer, or street artist
Technology—a game, app, or software designer
Essential Questions
As you analyze, consider the following questions. In the process of considering these questions, you should conduct significant research to become better informed about possible topics.
How does this person promote specific values?
How is this person's work representative of wider social assumptions that are reproduced and circulated and/or published, including the scope and method of circulation?
How is the person's work experienced or interpreted?
How does this person's work contribute to and actively shape cultural ideals and expectations?
How does this person's work support or revise conventional ideas, practices, or expectations?
How does this person's work create meaning?
How does this person's work participate in influencing the formation of personal or group identity?
What is this person's role in society?
What essential elements of its form (visual or textual composition, style, presentation) contribute to creating meaning in this form of expression?
How does this person's work adhere to conventions of a larger genre or category? (the “genre” may be action movies, men’s magazines, etc.)
After considering these guiding questions, determine which question or questions lead you to develop an insightful and informed interpretation of the significance of this person's contributions to his or her field.
Audience: Your audience is your instructor and other members of the class, representative of an adult, educated, academic audience.
Length: 4-6 pages (1000-1500 words), not including the non-text object and Works Cited page
Requirements:
Use the Essay Structure resource, along with the strategies from the LUMEN Resource modules to guide your essay structure and organization.
Include an original title (not "Unit Two Essay" or “Education Essay")
Use MLA 8th edition documentation style to format your essay
Compose a thesis statement that argues for the enduring popularity of the artist’s work
Include at least five (5) resources from the CCBC Library Database
********One of the five sources must be a non-text object (image, audio, video) inserted into the body of the essay*********
Organize the essay so that each body paragraph is providing support for your thesis (use “Essay Structure” resource and LUMEN modules for guidance)
Cite all sources using MLA style in-text citations
Include an MLA style Works Cited page at the end of the essay (not included in 3 page minimum)
Compare Metz, Bazin, and Wollen’s theories on signs in the cinema
The film The Cabin In The Woods deals with the slaughter/sacrifice of young characters for the purposes of appeasing dangerous, ancient gods. This is conducted as a ritual — a specific sequence of acts, conducted at a specific time and/or place, with important symbolic meanings that affirm power structures within both society and the cosmos. Discuss one scene from the film that shows how the film is concerned with ritual, and then go on to discuss how rituals reinforce social identity, relationships, and power in religious societies. How do religious rituals define the identity of a religious community? How do they maintain power structures and figures of authority? How might they connect with myths that are fostered within religious traditions? You should use one example of a ritual from a religious tradition we’ve looked at to help flesh out your discussion.
You do not have to use an academic source for this essay but it may help you to do so. If you go through your essay and find that you need to support some of your assertions or observations with a source, go ahead and use a secondary academic source (make sure it’s from an appropriate publication — no random websites or Wikipedia, folks!) to back up what you’ve written.
As with the midterm essay, here are the rubrics/guidelines for this one…
BASIC RUBRICS FOR WRITING THIS PAPER
An “A” paper will almost always abide by the following rubrics/guidelines:
Discussion flows smoothly and is not repetitive
The discussion stays focused and addresses the questions in the prompt
Paper is structured according to critical criteria addressed in the writing workshop
Typological errors and grammatical errors are kept to a minimum (i.e., PROOFREAD!!)
Arguments are made based on facts and the critical evaluation of those facts
Assertions/opinions not rooted in demonstrable facts or evidence are avoided
Source material is treated carefully and responsibly: scenes from films are discussed accurately, academic texts are used judiciously and credit is assigned to the scholars who wrote those texts, other materials are similarly used strategically and cautiously and credited properly.
Conclusions emerge from careful deliberation and connect the discussion to a wider network of intellectual inquiry
Discussion stays on topic and serves the purposes of the assignment; a paper is an opportunity to contribute to scholarship, not to affirm a religious or political belief. A scholarly contribution can have IMPLICATIONS for the way people believe things, but the goal must be to stay within the bounds of academic discourse and critical, fact-based thinking.
The more of these points you manage to factor into your paper, the higher the grade will likely be. The fewer of these points you work into your paper, the lower the grade will be.
How might the categories of the Gothic and/or the uncanny be used to analyse Daughters of Darkness?
Screening: Daughters of Darkness/Les lèvres rouges (Harry Kűmel, Belgium/France/West Germany 1971)
Hi folks. For the final essay, you’ve just got to answer the following question.
1.) What is Noir? How has it influenced a more recent filmmaker in their work? Give specific examples, back up with scholarly articles.
Write at least 1000 words or four pages, but no more than 1250 words or five pages, 12 pt. type, double-spaced. This assignment will be graded on the basis of thoroughness and depth of your analysis, and the overall quality of your writing.
The more specific grading criteria will be carried over from the first two assignments.
Introduction 1.5 points
Body Paragraphs 5 points
o Introduction of source (film, and then scholarship you’re pulling from–title, author, type of media, publisher, publication date, etc.) and why you chose to use it in your analysis.
o Important information you found in the source regarding your question or assertion
o Build a relationship between your source material and the screening, along with personal introspection. Here you can use subjectivity in relation to your sources to fuse your own thoughts on the material— a word of caution. Avoid using ‘I’ and avoid using such words as ‘to me, personally’ as this is not well regarded in academic essay writing. We, the readers, will understand that you are infusing this material with your own perspective.
Conclusion: 1.5 points
The conclusion should restate the what you explored, outline some of its possible causes and sources. If you still have any questions about your thesis (and it’s ok to have some), you will discuss them here. Talk about why you think you still have questions regarding the problem you explored, where you might look to answer these questions, and what other forms of research you would have to do.
Spelling and Grammar: 1 points
MLA or APA Citation style: 1 points
Video Assignment
For the video assignment watch the video listed below and write a one to two page max paper describing your impressions and a few things you learned.
Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday
This video discusses potential asteroid impacts from two perspectives: That of massive destruction in the event of an impact, and the potential resources they have that could be mined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrsjHpVF128
Apply the spectator theory to a critical analysis of the film Fish Tank’. Your goal, in writing this analysis, is to show your mastery of that theory through an analysis of a specific film. How does Fish Tank challenge the patriarchal operations of spectatorship as analyzed by Laura Mulvey?
While your analysis of the film will depend primarily on your ability to discern its formal operations in light of the theory, you will also need to consult secondary sources. You must make use of at least one of the course readings related to your theoretical framework, and also any one of the following:
Linda Williams, “‘Something Else Besides a Mother’: Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama,” Cinema Journal 24.1 (Fall 1984): 2-27
OR
Erika Balsom, “In Search of the Female Gaze,” CinemaScope 83 (2020)
Please use the only sources that I upload.
Students will develop an Annotated Bibliography based on a topic in American Popular Culture that is of interest to them. A minimum of 5 peer-reviewed sources and 5 popular and/or open-web sources will need to be used in the bibliography. **An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance and quality of the sources cited.**
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