PROPOSAL AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Length: 150-250 words
Proposal:
State your topic and provide a thesis statement (research statement). Identify the area you will be focusing on (e.g. Film Narrative) and what theoretical lens you will deploy in your analysis (Queer theory, race theory, feminist theory, apparatus theory, semiotics, etc). Explain briefly how you will prove your thesis. For example, will you conduct a close textual reading of the films? If so, identify the films. You can revise this later when writing the paper.
Annotated Bibliography:
Identify and annotate at least six academic sources to support your chosen topic and research question. Please write 2-3 sentences for each bibliographic entry.
FILM THEORY AND CRITICISM ESSAY :
Length: 2500-3500 words (this does not include the References page).
Note: Marks will be deducted for not meeting minimum required length.
Criteria:
Write a critical theoretical paper analyzing a film, a grouping of films (any genre or form), an auteur or a film period or movement.
Your paper must have a clear thesis statement, explicitly deploy film theory to prove your thesis, and include a minimum of six academic sources that are cited throughout the paper. Your paper must clearly fall under one of the areas of study listed below.
• Film Language
• Film and Reality
• The Film Medium – The Image
• The Film Medium – Sound
• Film Narrative
• The Film Artist
• Film Genres
• Spectator and Audiences
• Digitization
• Globalization
Your analysis will be constructed through TWO OR MORE of the APPROACHES listed below.
• Formal analysis (the film’s formal elements)
• Cultural analysis (analyses the film through the lens of gender, race, social class, sexuality, etc.)
• Historical analysis
o Aesthetic approach
Auteurism
o Technological approach
o Economic approach
o Film as social history