Short 3: Description
1-2 pages
Due Wednesday, March 22
For this assignment, you will need to select one of the two films you’ve chosen for essay two. Select a scene from this film and discuss it within the context of the four clips we viewed together in class. You do not have to contextualize it within all four clips we saw; you may pick the one or two that are most relevant. It is your choice when a scene begins or ends in a film; everyone reads films slightly differently. (You may treat the scenes we viewed in class as important canonical scenes in the history of war films, and assume your reader already has a basic understanding of them.)
Discuss how your chosen scene might relate, conflict, complicate, challenge, or complement the scenes we viewed in class. You will have to be specific about whatever relationship you discover. By specific, I mean you must verbalize in words or phrases the different reasons that bridge or separate the relationship between the scenes you’ve chosen. You will have to show or prove those reasons in your essay by describing and then explaining the parts of each scene that are relevant to your idea(s) about the scenes.
To explain how your chosen scene works together with another, you will need to describe and explain what features, issues, or subjects interact together between the scenes, and what features, issues, or subjects appear different. Some scenes may, for instance, be similar in perspective, point of view, editing, or mood, but may depict dissimilar subjects for different purposes or effects. You must find a creative way to explore these similarities and differences.
Finally, for every claim you make and explain about a relationship in your chosen scenes, you will have to explain the meaning or importance of your discovery. In order to explain the meaning or importance of anything, you must contextualize for your reader what overall purpose your ideas might illuminate. You may write how the scene explains, for you, the experience of war. You may want to explain, for instance, whether the tensions you discover in your two scenes refer back to larger tension within American culture or history, or some larger issue that has to do with gender, nationalism, or film itself. The scenes may relate back to a concept in our class reading. It could be anything: you goal is to find that something, and explain how and why your short essay relates to it, and why someone else reading it should care.
As with any essay, it is also your job to incorporate this assignment into a prose style that is fluid, literate, polished, and written with a sense of authority and inspiration. The essay should not bear the clunky signature of an author “answering questions.” This, too, is part of the challenge of good academic prose.
Assume, too, that this piece may become the foundation for the conclusion of essay two.
Due Wednesday, March 22
For this assignment, you will need to select one of the two films you’ve chosen for essay two. Select a scene from this film and discuss it within the context of the four clips we viewed together in class. You do not have to contextualize it within all four clips we saw; you may pick the one or two that are most relevant. It is your choice when a scene begins or ends in a film; everyone reads films slightly differently. (You may treat the scenes we viewed in class as important canonical scenes in the history of war films, and assume your reader already has a basic understanding of them.)
Discuss how your chosen scene might relate, conflict, complicate, challenge, or complement the scenes we viewed in class. You will have to be specific about whatever relationship you discover. By specific, I mean you must verbalize in words or phrases the different reasons that bridge or separate the relationship between the scenes you’ve chosen. You will have to show or prove those reasons in your essay by describing and then explaining the parts of each scene that are relevant to your idea(s) about the scenes.
To explain how your chosen scene works together with another, you will need to describe and explain what features, issues, or subjects interact together between the scenes, and what features, issues, or subjects appear different. Some scenes may, for instance, be similar in perspective, point of view, editing, or mood, but may depict dissimilar subjects for different purposes or effects. You must find a creative way to explore these similarities and differences.
Finally, for every claim you make and explain about a relationship in your chosen scenes, you will have to explain the meaning or importance of your discovery. In order to explain the meaning or importance of anything, you must contextualize for your reader what overall purpose your ideas might illuminate. You may write how the scene explains, for you, the experience of war. You may want to explain, for instance, whether the tensions you discover in your two scenes refer back to larger tension within American culture or history, or some larger issue that has to do with gender, nationalism, or film itself. The scenes may relate back to a concept in our class reading. It could be anything: you goal is to find that something, and explain how and why your short essay relates to it, and why someone else reading it should care.
As with any essay, it is also your job to incorporate this assignment into a prose style that is fluid, literate, polished, and written with a sense of authority and inspiration. The essay should not bear the clunky signature of an author “answering questions.” This, too, is part of the challenge of good academic prose.
Assume, too, that this piece may become the foundation for the conclusion of essay two.
posted by Jrc at 4:01 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home