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This tutorial offers a toolbox of basic narratological concepts, approaches, and models and shows how to put it to work in the analysis of film. The revised text introduces an extended version of the 'filmic composition device' (FCD) and a film-specific adaptation of constructivist focalization.
HOW TO WRITE A FILM ANALYSIS: GETTING STARTED: • Watch a film with your full attention for the first time. • We are all able to recount plot after watching a movie once; it is more difficult to explain how images and sounds presented make up such a narrative. • So, watch the film again (and again and again)!
- Sample Student Paper: Analysis of a Complete Film
- John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath
- Sample Student Paper: Analysis of Selected Film Elements
- In the first sentence of the body of the paper, the writer informs us of the subject of the first section (characterization) and names the various aspects to be discussed
- Sample Student Paper: Analysis for Study
- Honor Versus Passion: May and Ellen as Dramatic Foils in The Age of Innocence
The paper that follows is an example of a critical analysis of an entire film, The Grapes of Wrath. Numbers printed in the margins indicate pages of the textbook that serve as the basis for specific paragraphs of the paper. Once again, note the importance of personal and independent analysis. The author of this paper read the textbook and viewed th...
—LISA CORNWELL 20–34 Throughout its relatively young life, the motion picture industry has produced an enor-mous number and variety of films that have ranged from glaring examples of artistic inepti-tude to hallmarks of cinematic excellence. Although many of these films have proven memorable for both good and bad reasons, only a few have come to be...
Instead of analyzing a whole film, you may be asked to write a brief paper focusing on the four or five elements you consider crucial to the film’s overall impact. This kind of paper can be limited to four or five typed pages and can be designed to fit a simple but very work-able organizational pattern. The marginal notes in the sample below descri...
Martin Scorsese’s powerful film Taxi Driver is one that delves into serious moral, social, and political issues of its time, issues that are still highly relevant today. Made in 1976, it surfaced at a time in American history during which there was much social and political unrest. Our country was divided on many issues of the day—the af-termath of...
Here is another sample essay. Use the margins to make your own annotations about the im-portant points in this analysis.
—CAROLYN DENISE TOMLINSON New York in the 1870s paid homage to the Victorian age of England. Bound by excessive rules of etiquette and by a society dominated by the “right” bloodlines, the narrator of Mar-tin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence explains, “this was a world balanced so precariously that its harmony could be shattered by a whisper.” Scors...
This tutorial offers a toolbox of basic narratological concepts, approaches, and models and shows how to put it to work in the analysis of film.
- Manfred Jahn
Gravity is a 2013 film starring Sandra Bullock (Dr. Ryan Stone) and George Clooney (Lieutenant Matt Kowalski) as American astronauts who are stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their Space Shuttle, and their attempt to return to Earth.
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