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You will write a 3,000-word essay on a topic of your own devising. This essay should engage with issues of representation, identity and difference covered during the module. This may involve discussion of, for example, nationality, 'race', stereotyping, ethnicity, otherness, sexuality, class, orientalism, gender, and/ or embodiment. The essay should compare at least two examples of works of screen media. One or more of the examples you use should have been discussed in assessment 1 (the presentation). You should use…

Choose two out of the following six questions and answer them using the materials from the readings, screenings, and class lectures and discussions. The answer to each question should be organized as a short essay. This means it should make a claim that answers some of the specific questions posed in the description of each topic. Your introduction paragraph must have a thesis statement/overall claim. The main body of the essay must further elaborate on your argument and use material…

Shortened description below. Will supply additional material/info when project is accepted (full description, rubric, etc.). he/him and would prefer Borat. In this paper, try to encapsulate and pin down the trickiness of theorizing and representing Jewish identity, while also engaging its liminality. What does a modern American Jew “look like” in America? In this 5-6 page you will examine the role of Hollywood, and of filmic representation, in portraying Jewishness in a film that explores and betrays the precarious position…

Choose a film by one of the filmmakers viewed in class. Write an essay in the style of film criticism. Describe in detail the element(s)of the film that were most affecting to you, how the filmmaker used the element(s)to tell the story, and how you interpret those elements to find meaning in the film.How do the filmmaker’s cinematic techniques or uses of certain filmic elements support the theme (message of the film), and the meaning you derive from the film…

Full description attached! :) Objective: To construct and support an argument about two films that both represent the same socio-cultural issue (see 3A. below for a list of possible issues) in similar and/or different ways as evidenced by examples of the visual elements /mise-en-scene from each film. Select films that we have not discussed in class, that interest you, and ones you can view multiple times, and compare how each of these films represent the issue you are tracking (such…

research and produce his/her own final project, whose subject must be approved by the professor (with whom each student should consult before proceeding to develop that project). The subject must involve significantly, in the judgment of the professor, the twin components of the course, Greek and/or Roman antiquity and cinema; the inclusion of additional components, properly integrated with these, is left to the discretion of the student. The completed project will consist of a formal paper, 5 to 7 pages…

Hello id like to get some help with this assignment i have put the details in 2 attachments! basically i need a 3-5 minute speech written in english that is going to be about me presenting a movie. The ''rules'' of the assignment is in the attached files. just to make it clear i only need the written part the speaking i will handle! and if i can be greedy i would like it to be a marvel movie but…

Write an analysis of In a Mood for Love using one ore more of the three methods of analysis listed below: 1) Use of Kinds of Montage — as identified and described by Sergei Einseinstein. This method is described in pages 37-38 of Cultural Criticism. I have also posted two videos with helpful, illustrative examples in Week 3. 2) Use of Metaphor and Metonymy — These figures are described in pages 86-89 of Cultural Criticism. In our discussion of In…

Hey professor. You have done this assignments before. And I want you if you can finish it and write the final script for it I attached the the assignments you did in the attachment and the assignment that I want you to do this time is to write 11 page long script writing for the the ones you did like a final draft for it . And you need this time to use either Celtx or Highland 2 or Trelby.…

For the second assignment, we will again switch back to working solo. In this context, you will still be working with films posted on the Colonial Film Catalogue database. In this version, you will select one film to serve as the source of your analysis (please include the link to the film in the text of your submission, so we can find it as well), and you will endeavor to consider two key perspectives during your analysis. First, you will…