Readings
Defining Documentary Film by Henrik Juel
Detropia
Interview with Detropia Filmmakers
Media Literacy Questions for Analysis
Write a 1-2 page paper of 3 paragraphs in which you answer each block of questions from this sheet.
5 Scene Annotation & Analysis
Example Scene Annotation & Analysis
Student Essay "Public Enemies"
Vertigo
Understanding Auteur Theory
A Certain Tendency in French Film by Francois Truffaut
A Filmmaker for All Seasons by David Desser
Student Example Critical Response
In the Name of Feminist Film Criticism by B. Ruby Rich
Male Feminism by Stephen Heath
Lucrecia Martel
La Mujer Sin Cabeza
Shadows
The Politics of Being Seen by Hartman and Griffin
Seventh Grade
Seventh Grade Review
Barbara Loden
Using Secondary Sources Effectively
Secondary Source Student Essay.pdf
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway
The Killers dir. Robert Siodmak (1946)
The Killers dir. Don Siegel (1964)
Scale, Realism, Ideology
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Adaptation by Andrew Dudley
Emma by Jane Austen
A Totally Clueless Emma by Walter Metz
Literary Cinema and the Form-Content Debate by Kamila Elliot
Beloved by Toni Morrison
What Novels Can Do That Films Can’t (and Vice Versa) by Seymour Chatman
Student Essay Film Adaptation
A Gentleman Always
The Reivers by William Faulkner
pg. 150-151 refer to short film