Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the discussion of genre in Chapter 3 of Film: From Watching to Seeing, as well as your instructors guidance and lecture materials, and Chapter 11 in Film Genre Reader IV. The ENG225 Research Guide in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library will be particularly helpful in locating required sources. This assignment is your opportunity to demonstrate understanding of one selected genre. To do that, you will watch a full feature-length film from that genre.
Please choose a film from this list of approved choices download.
Note: You should watch your chosen film twiceonce to ensure that you have grasped the storytelling and once to take more specific notes on aspects of the film you wish to discuss. If you would like to write about a film that is not on this list, you must email your professor for approval in advance or you may not receive credit on this assignment.
It is recommended that you look ahead to the Week 3 written assignment and Week 5 Final Paper guidelines to ensure that you choose a film for this assignment that will work with the requirements on those later assignments. You may opt to write about the same film in your Week 3 and Week 5 written assignments, and applicable pieces of this assignment can be used to write that assignment. If you do this, you should reflect on and revise this assignment based on the instructors feedback before you incorporate it into any future writing assignment.
Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how your chosen feature-length film both aligns with and expands upon your chosen genre. Consider using the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center Thesis Generator (Links to an external site.) to help develop your thesis. Review the Week 2 sample paper download, which provides an example of a well-developed analysis as well as insight on composition.
In your paper,
Explain genre theory and, using Chapter 3 of the text as a reference, describe the conventions and attributes of the genre you have selected.
Identify a feature-length film that fits your selected genre and briefly summarize the movie. As you develop this summary, remember the differences between a films story and a films plot and be sure to highlight specific genre elements.
Interpret at least two genre conventions exhibited in your chosen feature-length film that help classify it in the selected genre. Be sure to provide a specific example of each convention (e.g., a particular scene or plot component).
Provide an example of a third convention from your chosen feature-length film and explain how this convention expands the boundaries of the specified genre.
The Genre and Genre Theory paper
Must be 900 to 1200 words in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Centers APA Style (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of Your Essay (in bold)
Your First and Last Name
University of Arizona Global Campus
Course Code: Name of Course (e.g., ENG 225: Introduction to Film)
Instructors name
Due Date
Text
Goodykoontz, B., Jacobs, C. P., Meetze, J., & Pritts, N. (2019). Film: From watching to seeing (3rd ed.). https://content.ashford.edu/
This text is a Constellation course digital materials (CDM) title.
Books
Grant, B. K. (2012). Film genre reader IV. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com
Kawin, B. F. (1992). How movies work. https://www-fulcrum-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/heb
Multimedia
Barthesian. (2009, March 11). The long take: Goodfellas (Links to an external site.) [Video]. https://youtu.be/OJEEVtqXdK8
Movieclips. (2011, June 16). A Beautiful Mind (4/11) movie clip – Nash cracks the code (2011) HD (Links to an external site.) [Video]. A Beautiful Mind (4/11) Movie CLIP – Nash Cracks the Code (2001) HD
Movieclips. (2011, June 27). Do the right thing (1/10) movie clip – Todays forecast (1989) (Links to an external site.) HD [Video]. https://youtu.be/wCL3OtOzYuQ
Movieclips. (2011, May 27). The shower Psycho (5/12) movie clip (1960) HD (Links to an external site.)[Video]. https://youtu.be/0WtDmbr9xyY
Movieclips. (2011, November 22). The baptism murders The Godfather (8/9) movie clip (1972) HD (Links to an external site.) [Video]. https://youtu.be/1CDlBLvc3YE
Movieclips. (2012, October 6). Miriams last breath Strangers on a Train (4/10) movie clip (1951) (Links to an external site.) [Video]. https://youtu.be/S04ArwiZwjE
Movieclips. (2015, June 18). The day the Earth stood still (4/5) movie clip – Klaatus speech (1951) HD (Links to an external site.) [Video]. The Day the Earth Stood Still (4/5) Movie CLIP – Klaatu’s Speech (1951) HD
Movieclips. (2016, August 18). Moonrise kingdom (3/10) movie clip – Running away together (2012) HD (Links to an external site.) [Video]. Moonrise Kingdom (3/10) Movie CLIP – Running Away Together (2012) HD
Movieclips. (2019, January 31). 2001: A space odyssey (1968) – Beyond the infinite scene (5/6) | movieclips (Links to an external site.) [Video]. https://youtu.be/Gfje9_QRQbk
Movieclips. (2020, June 9) Fruitvale station (1/10) movie clip Helping Kate (2013) HD (Links to an external site.) [Video]. https://youtu.be/sytZ2amRbpk
Movieclips. (2020, June 9) I will follow (2010) The lovers: Maye & Troy (Links to an external site.)[Video]. https://youtu.be/zt9pWMHM7vg
Movieclips. (2020, June 9) Moonlight movie clip Middle of the World (2016) HD (Links to an external site.) [Video]. https://youtu.be/TPxAKQoKORI
Supplemental Material
Pritts, N. & Meetze, J. (2020). List of approved movies download. Retrieved from https://uagc.instructure.com
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