Directions. I ask that you write a six to eight page paper (approximately 1500-2000 words) on one of the following prompts. This paper is not intended to be based in significant external research, though you may decide to tackle a prompt which has you seek out more films than we have watched in class. (You may continue to treat lecture as universally-known background material.) If you have an idea for a paper topic that is different from those listed below, please email me, and we’ll work out a prompt together for your use.
Content and formatting: The particulars of writing your papers – including analytic content and organization, citation style, and page and file formatting – should follow the instructions in the Course Writing Manual. Papers which do not adhere to those standards will face deductions.
Some Food for Thought: There’s a lot of room to explore in each of these prompts. Take the time to refine your thesis before you jump in! That creative, reflective work is critical, and if you do it well, it makes your job as writer a lot easier. Think on the prompts, revisit the texts, and be sure of your thesis and the two or three major arguments you wish to make before you begin your writing work.
Prompt Options:
Tracing a theme. Pick at least three films, and trace the way that modern filmmakers have made use of the Middle Ages and its history to discuss or express ideas about gender ideals and gender relations; class and class relationships; nationalist or colonial identity; heroic ideals
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