The conceptual framework for this essay is the evolution and/or phenomenon of cinema, reflecting on the transformation of material (technology), aesthetics, culture, and modes of experience. You may incorporate any material on the course, including all material archived in the online learning object. You need to incorporate analysis of at least two films set as primary screenings in the unit. This email should gesture toward: • A basic thesis line – what will this essay be arguing? At this stage, your thesis line might be somewhat speculative. • A list of primary sources – film texts/images. • A list of 45 secondary sources that will inform the development of your argument. Note that you can’t reproduce material from previous assessment work. You may draw on sources previously incorporated in assessments 1 and 2, but this material, formulated within an argument for assessment 3, should be substantively different. Feel free to check with your tutor on this issue. Style and Formatting • Title your essay (as if you are publishing the piece), regardless of whether you are using one of the questions below. Let the title reflect the major line of argument. • Use footnotes rather than endnotes. • Include a bibliography/filmography of all works cited in the body of the essay. • Edit your work for precision, clarity and continuity. If possible, have a friend read a late draft.
The conceptual framework for this essay is the evolution and/or phenomenon of cinema, reflecting on the transformation of material (technology), aesthetics, culture, and modes of experience. You may incorporate any material on the course, including all material archived in the online learning object.
1. Style and Formatting
· Title your essay (as if you are publishing the piece), regardless of whether you are using one of the questions below. Let the title reflect the major line of argument.
· Use footnotes rather than endnotes.
· Include a bibliography/filmography of all works cited in the body of the essay.
· Edit your work for precision, clarity and continuity. If possible, have a friend read a late draft.
2. Essay Topics
a)“All cinema is a special effect.” Sean Cubitt, The Cinema Effect.
Offer a reading of Cubitt’s position. You may wish to draw on Manovich’s reading of Vertov in this context, to which Cubitt makes reference.
b) According to Rombes, digitality negotiates a tendency toward ‘effect’ and intimacy. The digital image is inherently fragile.
Discuss.
c) Discuss the implications of cinema’s new mobility in the age of digital technology.
3.Primary films you can choose
Blade Runner (Scott, 2007)
The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann, 2013)
Dial M for Murder (Hitchcock, 1954)
Un Chien Andolou (Bunuel/Dali, 1929)
La Jetee (Marker, 1962); Wavelength (Snow, 1967)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren, 1943)
Russian Ark (Sokurov, 2002)
Additional: Arrival (Villeneuve, 2016)
Cloverfield (Reeves, 2008)
This is Not a Film (Panahi, 2011)
Night Fishing (Park Chan-Wook, 2011)
Southland Tales (Kelly, 2010)
ree of Life (Malick, 2011)
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