Films

Films

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1:Integrative Paper

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Integrative Paper Guidelines.
Write a 1,750-word paper, expanding on your Research Question and Background assignment that will become the Introduction section for the Integrative Paper.
Include the following in this section (Introduction) of your paper:
• Title page
• Introduction and background
• Purpose statement
• Research questions
• Definition of terms
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2: Films

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Be specific and concrete as you can, referring where appropriate to particular moments in the films.
Answer any FIVE of the following:
1. Briefly discuss some of the cinematic techniques that D. W. Griffith employs in The Birth of a Nation.
2. In a number of ways, Chaplin and Keaton were opposites. Explain.
3. Although the director F. W. Murnau made Sunrise in the United States, the film is in many ways exemplary of the German silent cinema. Explain.
4. Some critics have argued that Luis Buñuel’s Land Without Bread is a mock documentary, not really a documentary at all. Do you agree? Explain.
5. Red Dust and Baby Face could not have been made during the period in which the Production Code was strictly enforced. Explain.
6. As exemplified by The Crime of Monsieur Lange and A Day in the Country, Jean Renoir’s films of the 1930s have a distinctive cinematic style. Explain, referring to at least one example from each film.
7. Alfred Hitchcock designed his film in such a way that viewers would be made aware that there was an unseen author, whose instrument was the camera, calling the shots. Explain, referring to at least two examples from The 39 Steps.
8. Some theorists have charged that in “classical” Hollywood movies female characters are passive, and that the films are designed primarily to endorse traditional gender roles. Does this charge apply to It Happened One Night? To The Philadelphia Story? Explain.

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