Description Submit here your thoughts on Citizen Kane (1941). Write in your own words for about two pages (more but no less, and APA style) with an opinion on the film and its place in the film canon. Do you think this film deserves its accolades, or is it a relic of classical Hollywood with […]
Question Description I’m working on a film discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. to discuss the role a filmmaker plays in politics by analyzing the documentaries made by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1930s to compare and contrast other documentaries and the films made by Riefenstahl To achieve these objectives: […]
Description Identify and summarize a key point about poverty in the US raised in one (or more) of the readings and/or videos in this module. This may include important facts/statistics OR common beliefs/stereotypes about poverty and people living in poverty. Analyze the significance of the key point you chose. Did it challenge your thoughts about […]
Description PLS WATCH: THE FITS (on Kanopy) Comment on both the approach to the film’s cinematography and engagement with genre within the context of liminality and outsiderness, be specific with scenes and shots. If you could please review the previous homework i assigned you please follow that style of writing i mentioned previously when answering […]
Description In “The Mirror”, the camera becomes the mirror – it reflects the life around us and ourselves with our thoughts, dreams, anxieties. We question, what is the real world and what is the imagined one? What about the people we encounter – are they genuine or are they pretenders? As we look in the […]
Question Description I’m working on a film writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. Watch the three videos listed below, which provide a very brief overview of both the history of poverty in the United States and the invention/evolution of photography and moving image technology. Poverty: Riis, Hine, & Early […]
Description Students will work collaboratively in groups of 2-4 members (all with the same TA) to conceive and write their own manifesto to define what matters to them in media production today. Students will need to determine if their manifesto is based on politics, ideology, identity, aesthetics, technology, infrastructure, distribution, or another facet of film […]
Description Responses to essay questions should be well thought out paragraph(s), not just a few sentences and answers should cite specific examples, not contain general statements. Question 1 Looking at the state of each country where their respective film movement emerged, what was the impact of WWII on the filmmakers of the time? Provide specific […]
Question Description Watch this interview between Professor Newman and Patience Agbabi from fall quarter 2019 when Agbabi visited UCI. relate something that Agbabi discusses during her interview with Professor Newman to a contemporary cultural, political or scientific event of your choice in the world around you. Please explain: 1. something Agbabi says about poetry and/or […]
Description Texts: bell hooks, “Oppositional Gaze” Astria Suparak, “Asian Futures Without Asians.” Questions: What are the authors’ main arguments? What is the spectator that the authors are discussing / imagining? What common sense are the authors dialoguing with (or against)? How do these texts complement Diawara and Dyer’s texts? How would you connect the “oppositional […]
