Choose only 1 writing prompt/film, 1000 words. Select ONE of the following films and analyze its use of editing and sound. -Kill bill – Memento – Scott Pilgrim vs the world – Requiem for a Dream For Kill Bill, Do not analyze the first fighting scene between the bride and Vernita Green or the scenes between the bride and Buck. […]
Read Anorexic by Eavan Boland Homage to My Hips by Lucille Clifton), and My Mistress Eyes by William Shakespeare Analyze these poems in terms of societal (both past and current) expectations of youth and beauty. Are these things given undue or unfair emphasis? Also consider culture’s obsessions with perfection and athleticism. How are these things shown in these poems? Are […]
Boggs, J. M. & Petric, D. W. (2008). The art of watching films. (7th ed). New York: McGraw- Hill. ISBN: 0073535079. Irving, J. (2000). My movie business. New York: Random House. ISBN: 0345441303. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Purpose… To assess your ability to: Identify genre conventions compare and contrast genre Identify director’s style Analyze director’s style ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Overview.. Genre refers to a film’s […]
(Question): Naremore argues that Hepburn’s social class (upper class, highly educated, daughter of a doctor and suffragette, who was one of the earliest proponents of birth control) “could be used as a weapon against her whenever she appeared too progressive” (174). How does this fit into screwball comedy genre’s dominant ideology of “classlessness” on one hand, or laughing at the […]
