Take Home Exam One:

Write a 2 to 3 page paper on the prompt below.

Compare these two films:

How are these films similar, and in what ways might they be different? Apply the analytic tools presented in Bordwell and Thompson’s chapter on “The Significance of Film Form.” And finally conclude what symptomatic meaning, or symptomatic meanings, can be drawn from these films?

You must cite material from the textbook. Be sure that you accurately apply the Chicago Manual of Style (see Diana Hacker's handbook). I also encourage the use of outside resources (e.g., books, scholarly journals), however, refrain from using the internet as a resource.

I've created a general outline for the papers. You must attach the filled-in outline to your paper. Go to the outline.

Take Home Exam Two

Write a 2 to 3 page paper on the prompt below.


Discuss the “Men in Black” sequence in Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (Richard Robbins, 2007). Address some of the questions below:

• How does the mise-en-scene effect the meaning of the sequence?
• How does the composition effect the meaning of the sequence?
• How does the voice-over correspond to the visual material?
• Does the reconstruction of events with animation impinge the ‘truth-value’ of the sequence?

• Apply Laura Mulvey's ideas about the male gaze and the female form to the selected clip from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
  

• In what ways does Larry Clark's Kids conform to the tradition of Realism? Would André Bazin characterize Clark's film as a Realist film? If so, why? If not, why?

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• Manthia Diawara says at the conclusion of his essay that cinema should “question the passive role of the spectator in the dominant film culture. One of the roles of black independent cinema, therefore, must be to increase spectator awareness of the impossibility of an uncritical acceptance of Hollywood products.”¹ In what ways might Baadasssss fulfill Diawara’s assertion? How do Mario and Melvin Van Peebles challenge representations of black (male) characters?