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Essay Instructions: This film analysis paper should be 4 -6 pp. It should be written in essay paper format. You should use correct spelling, grammar, syntax, double-spaced, ad 12-point font. No answering question 1., 2., etc per se.
Rather you are drawing on all the elements we have covered throughout the course on this paper. You are analyzing in depth the narrative, the cinematography, the mise-en-scene, motif, symbolism, sound elements, and the counter-culture’s impact on the film.
Questions to answer within your film critique:
• Answer why this film holds a place in film history. In other words, what makes this film relevant to study and analyze. What does it teach you about film?
• What was going on in the decade of the 1950's? Address the time in American history when this film was made. Why is this significant to analyze? What was happening in our culture? How is this revealed in this film?
• This film poses the Hollywood star, the older generation and the younger generation against each other. It addresses issues of class, materialism, and societal morals and values, sexual norms? How does it do this and what is the film saying? What does this film say about values?
• How does the director Billy Wilder uses humor to engage the audience?
• Why is this film still profound in its message? Is it a dark comedy? Is it a true film noir?
• What does this film say about the older generations use of the younger generation?
• When you analyze William Holden and Norma Desmond’s characters, what do you see? Why was William Holden’s character controversial especially for this time period? What is the back-story of trying to get actors for Norma’s and Joe’s part? Who were the actors considered for these parts?
• Discuss the auteur, Billy Wilder. I don’t want a discussion of his private life, but rather his approach (style) to film making. What makes this a Wilder film? Research Wilder and his approach to filmmaking.
• Address, using film terminology, how the cinematography, music, lighting, and editing are used to create the mood and message of this film?
Steps to Writing this Paper:
• Prewriting strategies. View the film several times. Not too much of a problem with video rentals.
• Use film terminology. Knowing the terms helps you utilize them within your paper and this is a rubric grading criteria that will earn you points!
• Take notes as you watch the film. Note certain shots and/or film sequences and analyze them.
• Find out: Who made the film? What is the production history of the film? What do the critics and scholars say? What can you learn from the film's genre?
• RESEARCH TIPS. The most important research tip is: don't rely on the Internet. While the Internet can provide some interesting information about film, it generally doesn't provide you with the thoughtful analysis that will be useful to you in your work. It's best, then, to take a trip to the library and to get your hands on books and journals as well as using the INTERNET. DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA! See article why as told by the founder of WIKIPEDIA from The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/wikipedia-founder-discourages-academic-use-of-his-creation/2305

Essay Instructions: I need a 3000 word essay (in correct essay format) written on a movie by the name of "OUR TOWN" by Thornton Wilder 1939, 2003. The one we watched in class was the 2003 with Paul Newman as the manger in grover’s corner.
We are to pick one scene from the movie and analyze what the writer/playwright is trying to portray. Breakdown that scene. The link included is a small clip of the movie we watched in class of the graveyard scene. The essay also needs to be in (in correct essay forma). Also, I need to be able to attachment in Rich Text Format in an email.

For example the scene at the graveyard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnfACj0bvQ0


This paper is for an English Modern American Drama class
It's Due July 29, 2010

Essay Instructions: I need a 3 page essay analyzing how the towns and societies of "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder and "The Laramie Project" by Moisés Kaufman are different and similar. Describe how the two towns are and how they are different. Analyze the reaction of the town to the gay man and how it would be in "Our Town".

Essay Instructions: Paper set up: Just a research paper - doesn't need a conclusion as it is not an essay

Must include a reference list

Set out in APA format

Only use journal articles or articles from books

Research paper description:
This brief piece of research aims to investigate the psychological processes that are involved in ?intergroup contact?, that is, during face-to-face interactions between people from different social groups. Specifically, we wanted to investigate whether the valence and the type of affect that people experience during intergroup contact impact on the degree to which the contact partners are aware of their respective group memberships (i.e., category salience) and on the attitudes they hold about each other?s group. The main research should aim to investigate what previous research and psychological experiments have shown when looking at category salience during intergroup contact. Specifically to assess the effects that the affect (i.e., emotions) experienced during intergroup contact exert on the salience of the social category dimensions and outgroup prejudice, research should also back up the statements that Negative Incidental Affect Decreases Category Salience and Prejudice, and that Negative Integral Affect Increases Category Salience and Prejudice.


Some references that might be helpful, you don?t need to use them ? but they answer some of the areas that should be covered.

Brown, R., & Hewstone, M. (2005). An integrative theory of intergroup contact. In Zanna, M. P (Ed), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 37, pp. 255-343). San Diego, CA, US: Elsevier. Note: This is an extensive background reading with a comprehensive review of the evidence currently available for Hewstone and Brown?s (1986) intergroup model of contact and the pivotal role of category salience during contact experiences. Treat it as a background source.

Greenland, K., & Brown, R. (1999). Categorization and intergroup anxiety in contact between British and Japanese nationals. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 503-521. Note: This is an empirical paper looking at the relationship between one type of integral affect?intergroup anxiety?and category salience?here called ?intergroup categorization?. This research uses a longitudinal design, thus, allowing firmer conclusions about the relationship between affect/quality of contact and category salience.

Mackie, D. M., Queller, S., Stroessner, S. J., Hamilton, D. L. (1996). Making stereotypes better or worse: Multiple roles for positive affect in group impressions. In Sorrentino, R. M & Higgins, E. T. (Eds), Handbook of motivation and cognition, Vol. 3: The interpersonal context. (pp. 371-396). New York, NY: Guilford Press. Note: This book chapter provides an overview of evidence on the effects of incidental affect on intergroup judgments.

Wilder, D. A., & Simon, A. F. (1996). Incidental and integral affect as triggers of stereotyping. In Sorrentino, R. M & Higgins, E. T. (Eds.), Handbook of motivation and cognition, Vol. 3: The interpersonal context. (pp. 397-419).. New York, NY: Guilford Press. Note: This book chapter discusses similarities ad differences in the effects of incidental and integral affect on intergroup judgments and considers implications of these differences for intergroup contact.

Wilder, D., & Simon, A. F. (2001). Affect as a Cause of Intergroup Bias. In Brown, R. & Gaertner, S. L. (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology (pp. 153-172). Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers. Note: This book chapter identifies major psychological explanations of the effects of affect on intergroup judgments.