Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

This writing project will entail taking one of two approaches in your examination and analysis of one of the following films: Singin’ in the Rain, The Searchers, and The Hurt Locker.

Following Threads

Meaning in a visual medium like cinema is created through the repetition and reoccurrence of certain images, shots, and cinematic techniques over the course of a film’s runtime. What images, gestures, actions by characters, items, and shots occur again and again throughout a particular film? What occurs in the shots where these repeating things occur? What pattern is established by these occurrences? What does this repeating pattern come to represent or signify?

Fulfilling Arcs

In film, a character arc follows how a specific character grows, changes, evolves, or learns over the course of the film’s narrative. How does a specific character (major or minor) grow and change over the course of a film? What does his or her change and growth come to represent and signify?