Description PROMPT: This assignment asks you to write an 8 to 10 page paper analyzing an American or Hollywood film not screened in class in terms of its representation of a category of identity- meaning race, gender, class, sexuality, religion or nationality. Since the page allotment for this assignment is set to 10 pages, it […]
Description Readings: Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and and Simulations” (1981) Jon Kraszewski, “Country Hicks and Urban Cliques: Mediating Race, Reality, and Liberalism” (2009) Screenings: The Real World, season 1 episode 1 (1992) (I will upload this screening later, please do the other three questions first) “The Montreal Screwjob,” episode of Radiolab podcast (2015) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segm… Please respond […]
Description Here are the instructions for the assignment. In 300 words or more, respond to the following prompt: In Saving Private Ryan,one of the most intense battle scenes ever is staged. The textbook suggests the Office of War Information presented inaccurate movies to ensure that Hollywood’s accounts of WWII reflected “America’s best interests.” This movie, […]
Description Please write a two-page Formal Analysis (consider art elements and principles of design) on a film by any of these expertly directed film masters: Any of these 10 films considered the best directed of all times are acceptable: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) Lawrence of Arabia (David […]
Description First task (film handout): i need you to watch the film Adoption by Marta Meszaros, 1975 and then answer the questions on the file please answer it on the same file as it is a small comprehension task on the film. Second task (finish the reading and notes to be made on the file […]
Description Select 1 of these movies(LGBTQ in the media: Moonlight 2016 and The Birdcage1996) (Italian Americans media films are Goodfellas1990 and The Godfather1972 ) you can choose any one out of these films List the details of the film: (Director, date, title, etc.) Analyze the film’s depiction of the cultural minority group represented. How do […]
Description Write at least 400 words analyzing the scene from Saving Private Ryan in which troops are in a damaged church (it begins when the captain holds hand near candle). Be sure to watch this part of the film several times and take notes when you decide which terms to use. Your analysis must use […]
Description A researchproposal, in simplest terms, is a 300-word write-up that provides readers with a quick overview of your proposed essay or report and its organization. It should express your thesis (or central idea) and your key points. In other words, the proposal serves as a “snapshot” of the paper’s focus. The purpose of writing […]
Description Prompt Chosen: On page 233 of “Kinship, Intelligence, and Memory as Improvisation: Culture and performance in New Orleans,” Joseph Roach writes, “There are no trivial rituals. In the service of memory, or in its betrayal, performances have powerful, if often unpredictable consequences.” Using one example from this essay or from Butler, Austin, Taylor, Schechner, […]
Description Brecht & Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins presents a satire of America written in 1933 which we watch in a 1993 video art production directed by Peter Sellars. This “sung ballet” tells of two Annas leaving the their family in the country because of their necessity to make their fortunes in the cities. The […]
