CINE372 Assignments:

For all the course assignments there is an expectation your paper will engage with the course material in substantive manner. Outside research is encouraged, but not required.

Assignment 1

Using one of the methodologies (e.g., Eisenstein’s Montage Theory, Suture – sessions 1-4) discuss how Kenneth Anger’s 1947 film Fireworks generates meaning. The issue here is not necessarily what the film means, but how it creates meaning. [video material accessible via iLearn]

Assignment 2

Using one or more of the analytic approaches from our section on feminist film theory (session 5 through 10) discuss Naomi Uman’s 1999 film Removed. Some possible questions to address: Does the film usurp capital consumption? Does the film “undo” the fetishism we typically associate with the exhibition of the female body? [video material accessible via iLearn]

Assignment 3

Using one or more of the analytic approaches to non-narrative film discuss the selected clip. [video material accessible via iLearn]