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Assessment 2.
Major Essay: Critical Research Essay
Due October 28th.
The Critical research essay requires you to choose a filmmaker from wks 4-11 and research the current scholarly critical debate around that filmmaker. You will survey the debate, identify its dominant strands, take a critical position within the debate and argue for your reading of the filmmakers work or your agreement with a critical position.
This assessment goes a step further than the first by focusing on the ongoing scholarly debate around a filmmakers work. Each of the filmmakers selected (wk4-wk11) have a consistent and growing scholarly literature.
This is a serious scholarly undertaking so the task has been set from the outset of the Unit. I would advise that you choose a filmmaker in the first few weeks and dedicate some time each week to reading essays. Some films within a filmmakers work will be more prominent than others. You may then need or wish to centre your discussion around a film, or around a small groups of films. One of the criteria for selection has been that the filmmaker has a definite group of films, usually at least 6 feature films, others may have less but they have attracted significant scholarly debate. Each filmmaker will have a different career trajectory and this should be taken into account when you conduct your research and when you begin to write your essay.
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