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Paper Instructions:

Write a short analytical piece on a film (or films) that we have watched in class, applying concepts and methods learned to date in the course. 

Should provide a close reading of one of the films we have watched (The Age of Shadows, Spring on the Peninsula, A Stray Bullet), utilizing one of the following approaches taken from the Corrigan reading: film history; national cinema; genre; auteur; formalism; ideology.

The paper may draw on critical readings and concepts covered in class, and may propose connections with the relevant socio-historical context.  The paper should be centered on an arguable thesis, taking a specific position on an issue or topic.  As Corrigan writes, "The focus of the essay is far more specific than that of a review, since the writer hopes to reveal subtleties or complexities that might have escaped viewers on a first or even second viewing" (10).  Plot summary should be kept to a minimum—you may expect that the reader of your essay is familiar with the film under discussion.  The use of secondary readings is entirely permissible but not required.  If outside sources are used, please use either MLA or Chicago citation style.