Understanding the Revision Process
Write a 350-500 word essay on the revision process and how you can integrate what you’ve learned about revision into your own writing.
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The banning or censoring of a text
Explain why you feel the banning or censoring of a text was (or was not) justified. Use examples to support your claim.
The vulnerable shielded from dangerous ideas
“The vulnerable ought to be shielded from dangerous ideas.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain using examples.
The Florida Project
• In The Florida Project the story centers around a group of films and their families. Whose narrative point of view do we share? Whose perceptual subjectivity? Which character connects the stories? How does the film end? How does the end convey meaning? How does it relate to the opening sequence?
Un Chien Andalou and Meshes of the Afternoon
• Compare and contrast Un Chien Andalou and Meshes of the Afternoon, two avant-garde films seen in class. In what ways does each film puncture and rupture the development of the diegesis? In other words, how do the films’ plots constantly frustrate our attempts to reorganize them in narrative form? Give one example of …
The avant-garde cinema modes of production
• What modes of production are characteristic of the avant-garde cinema? What films have we seen in class that would be considered part of the avant-garde? Why?
Detect a point-of-view in documentaries
• Would you agree with the statement that “most documentaries do have a point of view, and always have”? Why? How can we detect a point-of-view in documentaries that do not make it explicit?
Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro
• Consider the documentary seen in class, Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro. How does the film convey meaning? Does it use devices such as voice-over narration, formal parallels, opening/closing patterns? In other words, how is the film organized around the life of the novelist, poet, and playwright James Baldwin and how does Peck weave …
Define “style” in film?
• How can we define “style” in film? Can you identify some stylistic traits in the films seen in class? Have you seen any other films by Orson Welles or Sean Baker? Do you have a favorite director? If you do, how would you explain what makes his/her films consistently relevant to you?
Communicator and as a critical thinker weaknesses and strengths
Discuss some weaknesses and strengths you possess as a communicator and as a critical thinker. Discuss the ways and style that you communicate with people. Do a little analysis of your communication style and talk about the successful things for you in the way you communicate and also some of the shortcomings that occur …
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