FA/Film 1401 6.0 A FW10-11
Course Director: John McCullough
FALL TERM TAKE HOME EXAM
Due: Monday, December 13, 2010, by 3pm
Submit your exam to the Dept. of Film Assignment Drop Box
beside Room 223 of the Centre for Film and Theatre
- This is worth 15% of your final grade
- Late penalty: 5% per day off the graded result (not including weekends)
Answer the following three (3) questions in essays that are ~900 words each (your exam will be approx. 2,700 words in total length which is 9-10 pages). For this assignment you will be evaluated on the quality of your writing and analysis including your ability to synthesize course readings, lectures, screenings, and tutorial discussions. When substantiating your claims you should make explicit reference to scenes in the films, mentioning techniques and formal qualities that illustrate your answer. You must use cinema studies terminology accurately and you must cite your sources in footnotes, endnotes, or a bibliography (you should use a recognized style guide with which you are familiar). Your essays should be double-spaced with pages numbered, ~3 cm margins, 12 pt font, black ink on white paper, stapled in the upper left, with a cover page that includes: Title: FALL TAKE HOME EXAM; Course Title & Number (Course Director’s Name): INTRODUCTION TO FILM, FILM 1401 (McCullough); Your Tutorial Number; Your Tutorial Leader’s name; Your Name & Student Number; Date.
Academic Honesty:
The take home exam format allows students to work on projects collaboratively and with a variety of forms of study and writing aids. This is helpful in developing fully rounded arguments and clear lines of analysis and thesis presentation. Nonetheless it is imperative that your essay be original and not a copy of others’ work. Those students suspected of cheating will be penalized according to the Senate Policy on Academic Honesty. If you are unclear about the definitions of academic dishonesty please consult the course director or visit this location: HYPERLINK "http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/legislation/senate/acadhone.htm"http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/legislation/senate/acadhone.htm
Please answer these questions in three essays of ~900 words each:
1. Describe the scene from each of Wizard of Oz and Stagecoach that represents the beginning of each film’s “development”. Explain your reasoning.
2. Discuss the implied meanings of the endings of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Citizen Kane, and Bicycle Thieves.
3. Discuss Battleship Potemkin and Stagecoach as expressions of nationalist values.
FA/Film 1401 6.0 FW10-11 McCullough
