Answer ONE of the following questions. 

1)  How are large geopolitical shifts (such as the creation or breakdown of empires, or the end of war, or migration) readable in the narrative and/or form your chosen film? Show how the essay frames this geopolitical change and how your chosen film exemplifies it. 

2) What is “new” about a film we’ve seen on the course? Describe how the essay makes an argument about newness, and how your chosen film itself embodies newness formally and/or in its content.?

 3) What kinds of institutions or infrastructures were most influential on your film? What historical developments in funding, production, distribution or exhibition does your essay address, and how does the film show the impact of these developments? 

Please remember that for this paper, you really have to answer one of the questions above—it’s not a freeform essay topic. You must concentrate on a single reading and single film. Be sure to use close analysis of the film to prove your historical argument.

I will provide some options for the films you can choose from. Its just ONE film, and ONE reading that need to be sources in this paper. I will also provide a link to the reading as well. 

This paper must be in Chicago format, with a bibliography at the end, also making sure to use endnotes when you quote or paraphrase. I left a document with instructions for the format. Double spaced, Times New Romain. 

The main objective to this paper is identifying the historical questions and arguments that scholars make and mobilizing those questions and arguments to analyze a film. That means you’re working on both the historical questions and arguments AND the film, and making a relationship and dialogue between them. You will be showing how the argument illuminates the film, but also how the film illuminates or even challenges the author’s argument.

Final thing, it CANNOT be a PDF, it has to be a doc or docx. 

Heres a list of 3 films to choose from with their specific readings for each film down below. 

1. Red Desert (1964) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni 

2. Daisies (1968) dir. Vera Chytilova 

3. Ali, Fear Eats the Soul (1973) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Just chose 1 film with the reading I provide for that film down below. 

You can watch these films on a website called soap2day.