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ENGL1011 Research Essay 2016
An essay is a genre of writing built on argument. In this essay, we want you to
frame an original argument, engaging materials in the unit from your particular
point of view. Of course, the idea of originality in essay writing does not refer
to ideas that have never been considered. Rather, essays provide you with an
opportunity to develop your own arguments, to read primary and secondary
materials in critical ways, and to engage in your own analysis of texts in
building your argument.
However, while all essays are in this sense ‘original’ works, the research
component refers to your ability to engage with the source materials we’ve
discussed in this unit. Your engagement with source material will help to
broaden your understanding of topics covered, and enrich your approach to
analysis and argument. Scholarly materials enable you to ask more incisive
questions about texts and contexts; they enable you to reflect on your own
position, testing its validity; and perhaps most importantly, they enable you to
support your claims with evidence.
This is the basis of all research: an original position taken (argument)
supported by research within the field. We would like to see you using
required readings, as well as some additional reading.
Essay Topics
Please select one of the following as the basis for your argument. You must
examine two films in your answer.
Note: you cannot reproduce material covered in your first assignment.
However, you are free to use any films discussed in your Reflective Journal
as the basis for your Research Essay.
1. Offer an analysis of two films set on this course that strategically subvert
the audience’s expectations of genre form.
2. In this unit, we’ve looked at film as a complex, highly collaborative artistic
enterprise. To what extent then can film be thought of as the work of an
‘author’? Offer an analysis of Jean Luc Godard’s À Bout de Souffle
(Breathless) and Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette.
3. Film positions its spectator; indeed, we could say that film is one of the
profound vehicles for ideology of the twentieth century. Do you agree? Offer
an analysis of Marie Antoinette and Casablanca.
4. Cinema was established very early in its life as a narrative form. And yet,
throughout the decades that followed, cinema entertained mass audiences
with astonishing audio-visual spectacles. Offer an analysis of what Tom
Gunning calls a ‘cinema of attractions’ in relation to Marie Antoinette and
Hugo.
5. “Kids don’t believe in movies anymore” – Martin Scorsese (Side by Side,
2012). What does Scorsese mean? Is the digital cinematic age a cause for
anxiety about the future of film?
6. Offer a reading of film style in relation to Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr
Caligari and one other film from Module 1. Consider each film as a ‘stylistic
patterning’ of story and image content.
7. Narrative is a process of storytelling. Offer an analysis of two set films as
narrative ‘experiments.’ What about these narratives make them
experimental? How do they depart from a narrative norm, or what Bordwell
and Thompson call “classical narrative structure”?
8. The screenwriter is responsible for creating a narrative to be
filmed. However, as we've seen with the work of screenwriters such as
Charles Kaufmann and Guillermo Arriaga, their screenplays go beyond story
to create a document which "describes a film" through their specific selection
of structure, metaphor and image. Can screenwriters be said to be directing
the film from the page or are they filmmakers who share a vision with the
director?
代写 ENGL1011 Research Essay
