Scene Close Reading

 

 

 

During the week we discuss salient techniques, you will be expected to apply the stylistic analysis model provided by Lewis in Essential Cinema to a film scene of your choosing. To complete the assignment you will have to:

 

Choose a scene from one of the film’s watched in class.

Discuss the scene’s place within the larger narrative.

Choose one technique that you think is used predominantly in the scene.

Discuss how it functions in progressing the narrative, enhancing the audience’s. understanding of the characters, and/or contributes to the film’s overall meaning.

 

 

This paper will be at least 1 page and turned in by Friday, December 5 by 11:00.

 

 

 

Papers should be

 

Double-spaced, 12 pt font, 1 inch margins

Correctly cite films

Should focus specifically on technique.