personal dimension: how the film affects you personally (identification, engagement, pleasure, excitement, alienation, boredom.

Write Film Report in 300 words (minimum) on one of the films from the list below.

Westerns — Stagecoach (1939) dir. John Ford, My Darling Clementine (1946) dir. Ford, Fort Apache (1948) dir. Ford, Blood on the Moon (1948) dir. Robert Wise, High Noon (1952) dir. Fred Zinnemann, Shane (1953) dir. George Stevens, River of No Return (1954) dir. Otto Preminger, The Searchers (1956) dir. John Ford, 3:10 to Yuma (1957) dir. Delmer Daves, The True Story of Jesse James (1957) Nicholas Ray, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) dir. John Sturges
Musicals — The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming [+ others], Go West (Marx Brothers; also a Western) (1940) dir. Edward Buzzell, Holiday Inn (1942) dir. Mark Sandrich, The Red Shoes (1948, UK) dirs. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger,Tales of Hoffmann (1951, UK) dirs. Powell and Pressburger, Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dirs. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) dir. Howard Hawks, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) dir. Stanley Donen, Jailhouse Rock (1957) dir. Richard Thorpe, Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
Instructions
300-500 words; 1-inch margins all around; 12 pt. font; double-spaced; name, title and page number in footer or header on every page; title your Report with the name of the film on which you are reporting, centered, in bold font; you may also expand the title as you please, according to your approach in your writing. Please submit your Report as a Word document.

Be sure to include the films’ title, director, year, and country of origin, and then feel free to include whatever other info you want (actors, writers, cinematographer, etc.). [These film credits do not count toward the word count for the Reports.]

These Film Reports may consider, comment on, and interconnect the aesthetic and technical aspects of the films, such as:
• editing, montage, filmic structure
• cinematography, camerawork, lighting
• directing
• screenwriting
• acting
• production design, sets, costumes, special effects, style
• music and sound
Equally (if not more) important will be to consider and write about the following:
• what (and how) do movies mean?
• theme, content, genre, intention, audience
• social dimension and function: what the film says and means about the world, and particularly today’s multi-cultures (in all their broad meanings and permutations)
• personal dimension: how the film affects you personally (identification, engagement, pleasure, excitement, alienation, boredom, etc. — how and why?)