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This paper must be well written and analysed. The paper must be written in your own words.
Prompt
The following critical elements must be included and addressed in your project:
Craft an introduction that gives your reader the WHICH and the WHY.
Which film are you focusing on? And which major comparative element will you use to frame your film history analysis? Your introduction should provide the following as fully as possible:
A complete identification of your chosen film, with reference to the name of the director and major actors, release date, country of origin, and style movement (if appropriate or known).
A clear statement of your major comparative element and your question regarding the relationship between the film and the major comparative element.
Why did you pick this film and these comparative elements? Why do they work well together?
Provide a one-paragraph justification for your choices of film, comparative element, and question that explains why they are relevant, historically significant, and/or important.
A preliminary or tentative answer to your chosen question in a well-crafted thesis statement that indicates the primary focus of your paper and how your film relates to its major comparative element.
Include a brief background section that contextualizes your film in time and space.
In the body of your paper, as you develop your comparative analysis of your chosen film, make sure to provide the following information:
Historical/Cultural Context: How does your film relate to its historical context, time period, and national or cultural origin?
Filmic Context: How does your film express the visual, thematic, and technical features of your director’s style or the film’s style period or movement?
Provide a detailed analysis by comparing and contrasting your film with its major comparative element.
Identify the historical, visual, conceptual, technical, formal, or structural similarities and differences between the two.
Support your main points about these similarities and differences with specific observations (drawn from your viewing of the film itself), and clarify how the specific scenes, characters, plot, or filmic techniques you analyze help to support your ideas about the relationship between your film and its major comparative element.
Explain why the similarities and differences you are seeing are important. Your analysis should reflect further understanding of key course concepts and language used in the analysis of film history and the humanities. Here you should refine your thesis statement in answer to the question you developed in Milestone One.
Sign off with a strong conclusion.
Use your conclusion to revisit what you have illustrated throughout your paper in support of your thesis. What was the main point you were constructing about the relationship between your chosen film and the major comparative element on which you focused your paper?