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THTRFLM 2FA3/ ARTHIST 2FA3/IARTS 2FA3:FILM ANALYSIS
Instruction Sheet for Term Essay

Due Date: Monday, April 6th by the end of the day (i.e., 11:59 p.m.). All papers must be submitted to the course's Tumitin.com site as detailed on page two of this instruction sheet. Papers submitted after its due date will receive a penalty of ten percent of the overall value of the assignment per day late. Late papers will not be accepted past the last day of classes. Late papers will receive a grade but no commentary. The weighting of this assignment is40% of the final grade.

Instructions for Assignment:

This assignment allows you a degree of flexibility. Choose one of the following films and write an analytical essay on the film you have selected. The successful analysis will demonstrate an understanding of concepts arising from the course, applied to the chosen film, and compared to films screened and examined in class. You are to treat the film under consideration as a representative example of the type of film specified. The assignment is designed to indicate both your understanding of the category (be it classical cinema or art cinema), including the attendant formal features, and how an individual film embodies those features. Besides articulating what the category entails in terms of style, narrative structure, distinctive narrational strategies, ideological positions, etc., your essay should use close textual analysis to demonstrate how form can be linked to the objectives of this category. Your paper must have a stated thesis which guides the analysis you pursue, and at least two specific sequences from the film should be employed as examples to bolster your argument. Use this paper to draw together the materials you have been exposed to and demonstrate your command of the critical tools you have  acquired. Ideally, your essay should provide a precise and persuasive analysis of a specific type of film practice and demonstrate how analysis illuminates ourunderstanding of the film in question.

Sullivan's Travels (U.S.A., 1942; director: Preston Sturges;90minutes, classical cinema)

The Lady From Shanghai (U.S.A., 1948; director: Orson Welles; 87 minutes, classical cinema)

The Third Man (U.K., 1949; director: Carol Reed; 108 minutes, classical cinema)

Night of the Hunter (U.S.A., 1955;92 mins.; director:Charles Laughton; classical cinema)

Smultronstallet / Wild Strawberries (Sweden, 1957; 91 mins.; director: Ingmar Bergman; art cinema)

Vivre sa vie / My Life to Live (France, 1963; director: Jean-Luc Godard; 85 minutes, art cinema)

L'Avventura / The Adventure (Italy, 1960; 143 mins.; director: Michelangelo Antonioni; art cinema)

The student is responsible for screening their chosen film. I hope to place downloadable files of these films onto the course Avenue content tab, inside the Term Essay Instruction and Material file. Look there to access the films.

That said:
The Third Man is available as an e-video and can be streamed through the following McMaster Library link: https://media3-criterionpic-com.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/htbin/wwform/006/wwk7702t=MON7288.

Wild Strawberries is available as an e-video and can be streamed through the following McMaster Library link: https://media3-criterionpic-com.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/display/006/wwk7702t-N46076.

Also, L'Avventura is available as an e-video and can be streamed through the following McMaster Library link: https://media3-criterionpic-com.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/htbin/wwform/006?T=N46004

The Hamilton Public Library has a digital media service called “kanopy" that allows you to stream movies online and download to mobile devices if you have a Hamilton public library card. Go to https://hplca.kanopy.com. Available at this site for borrowing are the last three listed film: Wild Strawberries;Vivre sa vie:L'Avventura