Intro to Film Studies: Final Assignment

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3rd Aug 2021

Intro to Film Studies: Final Assignment

1. View one film by any of the following directors:

Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Jim Jarmusch, Roman Polanski, Francois Ozon, Jean Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Passolini, David Lynch (not Blue Velvet), Alfred Hitchcock (not Vertigo) Jane Campion, Wong-Kar-Wai, Spike Lee, Francis Ford Copolla, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky, Mike Nichols, Peter Bogdanovich, John Sclesinger, Dario Argento, Alain Resnais, Bela Tar, The Coen Brothers, The Taviani Brothers, Roberto Rosellini, Vittorio de Sica, Luchino Visconti, Orson Welles, Lucrecia Martel, Víctor Gaviria, Adrej Wajda, Istvan Szabo, John Casavetes, Billy Wilder, Woody Allen, Lina Wertmuller, Reiner Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Luca Guadagnino, Sally Potters, Peter Greenaway, Mike Leigh, Todd Haynes, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Jean Pierre Melville, Jean Louis Trintignant, Bernardo Bertolucci, Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Milos Forman, Quentin Tarantino, Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Abbas Kiarostami, Satyajit Ray, Ang Lee, Djibril Dio Manbéty, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñarritu, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorcese. Vittorio de Sica, Roy Anderson, Christian Mungiu, Zhang Yimou, Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, Vigas Luna, Yorgos Lathimos, Alex de la Iglesia.

2. Watch the film at least twice. After viewing the film the first time ask yourself what the meaning of the film is. Usually, we create arguments by asking questions.

What does the film say about love in our modern times? The answer to the question provides you with the argument you will set out to prove in the review. Then ask yourself how the film conveys your argument by alluding to the necessary film language.

3. Before writing, outline your ideas on what the film meaning is (referential and symptomatic), outline the elements of film language that support your argument, and then go ahead and write the analysis. The review should offer the reader (who might not have seen the film) a fairly good assessment of the film’s style and meaning, and the way both of these components are related.

4. In your review it is REQUIRED that you address film editing!

Specifications: 6-8 pages MAX. (double-spaced, Times New Roman 12/Book Antiqua 11)