FLM4202: APPROACHES & ANALYSISASSIGNMENT3Word Length: 1750 words
OPTION 1: ESSAY ON GENRE
Write a 1750-word essay on the following brief:Evaluate the fluidity of genre and ‘genre bending’, demonstrating how films can adhere to, amalgamate and contravene genre conventions. Streamline your analysis of genre flexibility by focusing on ONEmain film (screened on the module in semester two), conducting a critical analysis of how genre boundaries and conventions can be mixed, moulded, reshaped, conventionalised or challenged.
OPTION 2: MEDIA TEXT ANALYSIS
Write a 1750-word essay analysingONE of the media textsbelow. In doing so, you should pay close attention to how stardom and/or genre is invoked on the poster itself, and use this as a pretext to consider the broader contextsof the star and/or genre in question, as well as the intertextual nature of stardom and/or genre that it evokes.You may wish to answer the following prompts with reference to posters for related films (eg. other starring roles), but the poster for your chosen option should be your focus.Essays that achieve a higher gradetend to draw not only upon core and further readings supplied as part of the module, but also show evidence of wider reading that isrelevant to the area under discussion (and this means more than just websites, but also books, eBooks, journal articles, etc.).Your options can be found below,with high quality versions of the individual posters also available on QM+.
SUNSET BOULEVARD
Analyse the representation of Norma Desmond in the following poster of Sunset Boulevard,and discuss the intertextual nature of the character’s relationship to thestar persona of Gloria Swanson.
SAN AND REAS
Analyse the representation of stardom and/or genre in the following poster for San Andreas, taking into account how popular genre cinema might be an important element in the star persona of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.
SKY FALL Analyse the representation of stardom and/or genre in this poster for Sky fall, taking into account how the character of James Bond figures within the star persona of Daniel Craig, and/or how the poster falls back upon the generic capacities of the Bond films.
CHARLIE’S COUNTRY
Consider how the following poster for Charlie’s Country drawson the Indigenous stardom of David Gulpilil.
How does it relate to the film’stensions between ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’? And in what ways does this trade on Gulpilil’s particular star image, and the intertextual/cross-cultural nature of his stardomand star persona?
