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a. Choose an essay topic. Your bibliography must reflect the topic of
your essay. This will reduce your workload and also get you thinking
early about your essay.

b. Compile your bibliography. The number of sources you will need will
depend upon your topic, but I recommend that you have no fewer than
three and no more than six, beyond those you have chosen from
our text. If you find yourself with more your topic is too broad; if you
have less, your topic is too narrow to sustain an essay of the required
length.

c. Assemble and format your bibliography according to Joseph Gibaldi’s
Modern Language Association Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers. It is essential to the assignment that you consistently use this
bibliographic style.

d. Annotate your bibliography. An annotation is a brief description of the
text which summarizes the main issues and indicates the text’s
importance to your essay. Each bibliographical entry plus its
annotation should be a substantial paragraph. Your entries should be
arranged in a recognizable and relevant order, i.e. hierarchically
according to importance, chronologically/historically etc. You must
provide me with a brief preface to your bibliography (of one paragraph)
indicating your essay’s prospective thesis, a justification for the
ordering your bibliography and a rationale for including the particular
secondary sources you have chosen.

e. Method: how do you go about finding material relevant to your topic?
Here are some suggestions for getting started.
i. Browsing, on foot in the stacks and via the catalogue. The
library terminals enable you to do sophisticated searches—learn
to use them!
ii. Bibliographies, indexes and footnotes of other books, such as
your textbook.
iii. Reference books. The library’s reference section has many film
reference guides, dictionaries and bibliographies, and the
reference staff are very approachable.
iv. Periodical indexes. Also available in the library are indexes like
the Film Literature Index which lists journal and other articles
according to author, filmmaker, subject, film title etc.

TOPICS

1. Film theorists have attributed different political and social functions to
cinema. Does cinema inevitably confirm ideology, or can it contest
ideology? How and why? Discuss in relation to at least two theorists
and use filmic examples.

2. With reference to a specific film, compare and contrast Christian Metz’s
and Laura Mulvey’s accounts of voyeurism, fetishism and identification.
Which is more useful? How and why?

3. How does the Lacanian mirror stage theorize film spectatorship?
Evaluate the success and application of Lacanian psychoanalysis to
the writing of two film theorists with respect to cinema.

4. There would seem to be two emphases in the theory of the apparatus.
The first looks back into the ways that film theorists have regarded the
technical apparatus, and it seeks to analyze the effects and
implications of film technology. The other emphasis tends to look
toward a psychoanalytic account of cinema. Choose one of these
emphases and develop an account of how apparatus theorists
generated their arguments.

5. Treating Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure” as a model for film analysis,
develop an analysis of TWO or THREE selected sequences that
exemplify the workings of film narrative as Mulvey describes them.
What does your analysis allow you to argue?