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Prezi Lectures on Writing

"'The Netflix Effect': Why Western Women are Heading to South Korea in Search of Love"

List of Overused Films No Longer Available for Essay Topics

Questions/Prompts on Monaco, Ch. 4, Part 1

Questions/Prompts on Monaco, Ch. 4, Part 2

Questions/Prompts on Monaco, Ch. 4, Part 3

Questions on WAM Ch. 4

Looking at Movies:--Genre--The Western



Film Analysis Essay #1
(Do Not Use Sources)

Narrative Vocabulary

How to Carry Out the First Film Analysis Essay (Narrative Vocabulary)

How Your First Film Analysis Essay Will Be Evaluated

The "Do Nots" in Academic Writing about Film for FAE#1

Issues with Film Analysis Essay #1

Film Analysis UNC

How to Analyze a Film

Sample Character Analysis of "The Thing" by Dudley Erskine Devlin

Sample Plot Analysis of "The Thing" by Dudley Erskine Devlin

Example of Irony in Cinema--Sergio Leone,"Fistful of Dynamite (Duck You Sucker)" (1971)

Sample Film Analysis Essay A

Sample Film Analysis Essay B

Sample Film Analysis Essay C

Sample Film Analysis Essay D

Sample Film Analysis Essay E

Sample Film Analysis Essay F

Sample Detailed Outline A

Sample Detailed Outline B

Sample Detailed Outline C

Peer Review Workshop for Film Analysis Essay #1

Grading Rubric for Film Analysis Essay



Resources on Semiotics and Cinematic Elements

Semiotics--Key Terms and Associations

Semiotics: The Study of Signs

Film Semiotics

Semiotics for Beginners

Heist (2001)

One Signifier; Many Signifieds: Crime Scene Investigation from "The Wire" (Some Graphic Language and Images)

The Eminent Reader of Signs: Sherlock Holmes

"Sudden Impact"--Excessive Sugar as Signifier

The Semiotics of "Fistful of Dynamite (Duck You Sucker!)"

Sergio Leone, "Duck, You Sucker!"

Sample Film Analysis Essay (with sources)

Sample Film Analysis Essay #2--"Burning"

Sample Film Analysis Essay #2--"Parasite"



Analytical Research Essay on Film

Addendum: Considerations for the Second Film Analysis Essay (Semiotic, Cinematic, Narrative Vocabulary)

Expanding the Film Analysis Essay into a Film Analysis Research Essay

How Your Second Film Analysis Essay Will Be Evaluated

The "Do Nots" in Academic Writing About Film for FAE#2

Sample Research Essay on Film

Sample Research Essay on Film

Peer Review Workshop for Research Film Analysis Essay



Summary Paragraph

Criteria for Writing a Summary Paragraph

Plagiarism, Paraphrasing, Summarizing

Joung Hyewoon's Very Helpful Compiled List of Signal Verbs

Sample Summary Paragraph A

Sample Summary Paragraph B

Sample Summary Paragraph C

Peer Review Workshop for Summary Paragraph

Grading Rubric for Summary Paragraph



Miscellaneous

LAM--Examples of Film Analysis

LAM--Diegetic and Non-diegetic Elements

Jane Rosenzweig, "The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write"

Andre Bazin's "What Is Cinema"

Bazin on the Long Take Versus Montage

Eisenstein's Five Methods of Montage

How Jean-Luc Godard Liberated Cinema

Basic Outlining

How to Make an Outline

How to Write an Essay Outline

Outline Presentation

Using Word to Create an Outline

Sample Outline

Sample Detailed Outline A

Sample Detailed Outline B

Sample Detailed Outline C

Paragraph Organisation Exercise

Sentence Formats and Sentence Patterns

Jeong Seoha Allie's Very Helpful List of Conjunctive Adverbs

Sample Sentence for Sentence Variety

"Minority Report"--Refrigerator Sequence

Modifiers

Paragraph Illustration of Coherence

Yoon Huijun's Helpful List of Standard Transitions

Mystery Phrase #1

Mystery Phrase #2

Conjunction Junction

Schoolhouse Rock: Adverbs

Schoolhouse Rock: Adjectives

Schoolhouse Rock: Nouns

Schoolhouse Rock: Pronouns

Schoolhouse Rock: Verbs

Schoolhouse Rock: Prepositions

Schoolhouse Rock: Interjections


Postmodernism--Metafiction and Metareality

Crossing Ontological Levels

"Last Action Hero" (1993)

"Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985)

Intertexuality

"Last Action Hero" (1993)

"Last Action Hero" (1993)

"Terminator" (1984)

Metareality

"Fahrenheit 11/9" (2018)

Film Clips

The Origins of Auteur Theory

Plot Segmentation

John Ford, "Stagecoach" (1939)

Shot Analysis

John Ford "Stagecoach" (1939)

Paradigmatic Connotation

Orson Welles, "Citizen Kane" (1941)

Alfred Hitchcock, "Notorious" (1946)--Long, Descending Zoom to the Key

John Campbell, "Who Goes There?" (1938)--Shapeshifting Alien

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials--The Thing--Shapeshifting Alien

Howard Hawks, "The Thing from Another World" (1951)--Vegetative Alien (Man in a Suit Played by James Arness)

James Arness, "Gunsmoke"--Television Series--1955-1975

John Carpenter, "The Thing" (1982)--Blood Test Sequence--Shapeshifting Alien--Tactile Special Effects--Rob Bottin

Rob Bottin (Special Effects) and John Carpenter (Director)--"The Thing" ('82)

John Carpenter and Richard Masur on Rob Bottin

"It Conquered the World" ('56)--Cucumber Monster

"The Thing" (Prequel) (2011)--Shapeshifting Alien--CGI Special Effects--Inauthentic/Artificial

The Thing (2011) Prequel--The Double Head Creation

Werewolf Transformation: "The Wolf Man" (1941)--Lap Dissolve--Time Elapse Photography on Legs

Werewolf Transformation: Werewolf of London (1935)

Werewolf Transformation: "The Wolfman" (2010) CGI

Werewolf Transformation: "The Howling" (1981)--Air Bladders Under Latex Facial Applications

Werewolf Transformation Details & Blooper

Rob Bottin Interview on The Howling

Rob Bottin Tribute

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)--Alien Alert #1--Dr. Miles Bennel's Fiancee Becky transforms into the Emotionless Imposter--No Scream--Calls Out to Other Aliens--Loss of Identity

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)--Alien Alert #2A--Closing Scream of Identification

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)--Alien Alert #2B--Dog-Man Pod

"Body Snatchers" (1993)--Alien Alert 3A--Meg Tilly--Transformed--Scream

"Body Snatchers" (1993)--Alien Alert 3B--Discovery Scene--Similar to Dog-Man Scene

"Body Snatchers" (1993)--Alien Alert 3C--Fingerpainting Scene--Pod People=Uniform Identity/No Subjectivity/No Emotion

"Invasion" (2007)--Nicole Kidman

"Assimilate" (2019)

Jekyll-Hyde Transformations (Barrymore, March, Tracy)--Mostly Lap Dissolves

Jekyll and Hyde (2015) - Becoming Mr. Hyde Scene

100 Years of Jekyll/Hyde Transformations

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde (1971)

Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde (1971)--MTF Transformation

Comic Relief--"Black Sabbath" (1963)--Film as Smoke and Mirrors

Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre

Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre-B

Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre-C

Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 1

Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 2

Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 3

Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 4

Comic Relief: SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theatre--Scare Part 5

Syntagmatic Connotation

John Carpenter, "The Thing" (1982)--Why does the biologist, Dr. Blair, take the gun from his desk?

Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali, "Un Chien Andalou" (1929)

Icon

Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood" (2007)

Parody 1

Parody 2

Parody 3

Parody 4

Index

Steven Spielberg, "Jurassic Park" (1993)

Sergio Leone, "Once Upon a Time in the West" ("You brought two too many.")

Heist (2001)

Symbol

"The Matrix"--Baudrillard--Key to Understanding the Film--Simulacra

"They Live"--Eyeglasses/Sunglasses=Lucid Sight/Perceiving Reality--Directives Toward Passivity; Aliens=Capitalism/Ruling Classes/Elites

"They Live" Fight Scene--Command of Sunglasses=Compulsory Education/Ideological Awareness

Roddy Piper

"The Shining"=Genocide of Native Americans

Metonymy

Lee Chang-dong, "Oasis" (2002)

Lee Chang-dong, "Oasis" (2002)

J.S.A.--Choco Pie--Metonymically Associated with Economic Progress; Rejected When Associated with the South of the Peninsula

"Alien"--Facehugger=Rape

"Alien"--Chestburster=Birth

"Alien" Trailer--Egg/Planet Association

"Spiderman"--Spiderman Transformation=Puberty

"Aliens"--Combat Scene=Vietnam War

"Aliens"--Ripley vs. Alien Queen=Feminist Power

"Batman: Dark Knight"--Batman=George Bush; Joker=Terrorist

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)--Space Pods Awaken--In Separate Location from Bodies and without Contact--Metonymies of Birth--Stolen Identities/Subjectivities

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ('78)--Pod Transformation Scene--More Movement and Some Connection to Living Bodies Compared to '56 Version--More Prominent Metonymies of Birth--Greater Movement

"Body Snatchers" (1993)--Teen Girl Cloned Replaced and Not Replaced--Similarities and Differences From Previous Versions--No Witnessing of Pod/Rhizomes in Tub More Prominent

Synecdoche

Michelangelo Antonioni, "Red Desert"

Jean-Luc Godard, "La Chinoise" (1967)

"Evil Dead II"--Metonymy: Evil/House; Synecdoche: Parts of House/House

"For a Few Dollars More" (1965)--Hats and Shoes as Surrogates

"The Exorcist"--The Exorcism of Feminism and Sexuality from the Pre-Pubescent Female Body

"The Exorcist" Part 2

"Village of the Damned" (1960)--An Allegory and Premonition of the Sixties Youth Movement and Challenge Against Parental Authority--Vision as Weapon

"Village of the Damned"--Part 2--"Leave Us Alone!"

"The Thing With Two Heads" (Allegory of the Anxiety of Racial Desegregation [Proximity] as well as Bodily Colonization and Enslavement--Wealthy Racist and Terminally Ill Patient, Ray Milland's Head Attached to Body of Convicted Black Murderer Rosy Grier)

"The Edge" (1997)--Bear Chase Scene (Nature vs. An Encroaching Humanity) (Bart the Bear Deserved an Academy Award)

Calendar Pages

Trope

Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali, "Un Chien Andalou" (1929)

The Classic Mexican Standoff

Mexican Standoff--Sergio Leone, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" (1966)

Mexican Standoff--Quentin Tarantino, "Pulp Fiction" (1994)

Mexican Standoff--Quentin Tarantino "Reservoir Dogs" (1992)

Love & Hate--"Night of the Hunter" (1955)

Love & Hate--"Do the Right Thing" (1989)

David Cronenberg, "Scanners" (1981)--Literalization of "Mind-Blowing"

Code

Alfred Hitchcock, "Psycho" (1960)

Gus Van Sant, "Psycho" (1998)

Bugs Bunny

"Delicatessen" (1991)--Cultural Code of the Squeaky Bed

Mise-en-Scene

LAM--Form and Content

Mise-en-Scene--Video Tutorials--Looking at Movies

Rudolph Arnheim, "Art and Visual Perception"

Mise-en-scene Analysis

How to Speak Movie Part 1--The Camera

How to Speak Movie Part 2--Mise en Scène

Mise-en-scène - Composing the Frame

LAM--Lighting

Closed Form

"Night at the Opera" (1935)

Angle

LAM--Camera Angles

Roll

"Royal Wedding" (1951)

"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)

Tracking Shot

LAM--Zoom and Moving Camera Effects

Jean-Luc Godard, "Weekend" (1967)

Michael Snow, "Wavelength" (1967)

Michael Snow, "Back and Forth" (1969)

Michael Snow, "La Region Centrale" (1971)

POV and Establishing Shot

LAM--Point of View

Alfred Hitchcock, "Rear Window" (1954)

Robert Altman, "The Player" (1992)

Orson Welles, "Touch of Evil" (1958)

Sound

LAM--Sound

Musique Concrete

Pierre Schaeffer, "Etude aux chemins de fer" (1948)

Pierre Henry, "Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir" (1963)

Door Trumpet

DJ Spooky (Paul Miller), "Anansi Abstrakt" (1996) (Use of "Samples" or "Quoting"--Extending Musique Concrete)

DJ Spooky--Sample #1: Pierre Henry, "Marche du Jeune Homme" (1965)

DJ Spooky--Sample #2: Claude Debussy, "Syrinx" (1913)

DJ Spooky--Other Samples

DJ Shadow--Digging (The DJ as archivist and librarian of sound)--from "Scratch" (2002)

Montage

How to Speak Movie Part 3--Editing

Jump Cut, Match Cut, and Cutaway

LAM--Editing

LAM--Editing and Performance in Snapshot

LAM--Editing Techniques in Snapshot

Sergei Eisenstein, "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925)--The Odessa Steps Sequence (Complete)

Sergei Eisenstein, "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925)--The Odessa Steps Sequence

A History of Cutting--The Soviet Theory of Montage

Eisenstein's Methods of Montage

Dissolve, Wipe, Straight Cut

Fades and Dissolves

Art & Technology

Camera Obscura

Camera Lucida

Edison Phonograph (Cylinder)

Edison Victrola

Edison Kinetoscope

Early Edison Kinetoscope

Kinetoscope Documentary

Focal Length: Wide-Angle, Normal, Telephoto Lenses

The Dolly Zoom

Dolly Zoom--"The Quick and the Dead"

LAM--Zoom and Moving Camera Effects

Steadicam

Steadicam 2

Steadicam Examples

1

2

3

4

5

Steadicam--Garrett Brown

Skycam

Louma Crane

Technocrane

Art of the Technocrane

LAM--The Moving Camera

Winged Migration

Raptor Force

***PLEASE NOTE!!!***

SUBMISSION POLICIES HAVE BEEN REVISED!

All submissions are due on the date assigned.  However, students may take a 24-hour grace period to complete a submission after the date assigned as needed.  In that case, the paper must be submitted to my mailbox in the 교수휴게실of the 외솔관 building no later than 24 hours after the announced due date.  Any submissions made after that 24-hour grace period will be docked one number grade (e.g. 4.5 would be reduced to 3.5).  Papers submitted one week or more after the assigned due date will not be accepted.  Exceptions can be made in the case of documented proof of illnesses, injuries, emergencies or field trip activities.  Those are the only instances of accepted cases and they must be supported with proof.  Submissions that are not workshopped by another member of our class will not be accepted.  Submissions that were not workshopped during our regular class hours will be docked by one number grade as well.



ARTICLES

Alexander Chee, "Park Chan-wook, the Man Who Put Korean Cinema on the Map"

Marc Raymond, "'It's Better Not to Lie, But it's Hard to Stimulate the Audience Otherwise': Realism and Melodrama in Lee Chang-Dong's Secret Sunshine"

Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Dangers of Biosecurity: The Host and the Geopolitics of Outbreak"

Steve Choe, "Catastrophe and Finitude in Lee Chang Dong's Peppermint Candy: Temporality, Narrative, and Korean History"

Lovorko Maric, "'The Straight Story': Lynch Going Straight for His Most Experimental Film"

Saul Landau, "Hearts and Minds: An American Film Trial"

Chauncey Devaga, "America is a Neoliberal Horror Movie"

"They Live!: How John Carpenters Classic is Becoming More and More of a Reality"

Gerry Canavan, "If the Engine Ever Stops, We'd All Die: Snowpiercer and Necrofuturism"

Document Packet List

Sample of Clustering/Mapping

MLA Style Guide

Submission Guidelines

Correction Symbols

Evaluation Descriptions for Essays

Steps in the Writing Process

Checklist for Sentence Variety

Article on Pronouns

Old Before New/Forecast and Fulfill

Old Before New

Writing Concisely

Vague Language--"The Thing"

Tips on Demonstrative Pronouns

Sample Workshop Sheet #1

Sample Workshop Sheet #2

Sample Workshop Sheet #3

Sample Workshop Sheet #4

Sample Workshop Sheet #5

Sample Workshop Sheet #6

Sample Workshop Sheet #7

 

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