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Focused Film: I Am Legend <\/em>(2007)
The argument made by the Film Analysis must connect its film to the politics and thus the other films addressed in the course. Please state the claim in a single sentence. It should be fairly short and simple. This frame for the argument should run two paragraphs, probably no more than one
page of double-spaced print on letter-sized paper (8.5 X 11 inches). Next, define the key terms in the claim. Use one fairly short, simple sentence per term. The goal is clarification. Only if likely readers are inclined to reject one of your definitions does it need any justification. (And if so, keep the justification brief, direct, and in the body of the full Film Analysis.) The thesis and definitions of its key terms complete the first paragraph. The second paragraph summarizes the main reasons your Film Analysis can advance to support the thesis. There should be two to five of these reasons, and each should state its claim in a single sentence. This second paragraph of reasons
must include every one of the thesis terms important enough to need a definition,
or the reasons can\u2019t be sufficient to support the thesis. Thus the Argument Sketch should take the form of two \u201cblock\u201d paragraphs. The initial sentence of the first paragraph states the thesis. The
second sentence defines the first key term in the thesis. The third sentence defines the second key term. The fourth sentence defines the third key term. Etc. The first sentence of the second paragraph states the first major reason for the thesis. The second sentence states the second major
reason for the thesis. The third sentence states the third major reason or the thesis. Etc. How do you identify topics and specify a thesis on the film\u2019s politics? Mindful of your notes on the course themes and movies ask what telling details of the settings, characters, subtexts, plot, sights, sounds, special effects, social significance, or other dimensions of the film recommend for analysis in
the course. As you conduct this review, list your ideas. Notice which ones connect
closely to each other. Consider which ideas make the most interesting sense of the
film as a whole: probably not every aspect of it, but the way it flows from beginning
to end, and especially how you experience it in regard to politics featured in the
course. Then try to refine these ideas into a page, which is likely to contain a
decent thesis and some reasons to support it. Working from this page, phrase your
claim about some politics important to the film. Pare it to a single sentence that is
a line or two long (at most). Looking back at the page and a longer list of ideas, write
a single-sentence reason to support each part of the thesis, considering one key
term after another. If you get a relatively brief, clear, and significant claim that you
can support with reasons about the film\u2019s politics, you\u2019re in business.
Example given: n Batman (1989), the title figure protects American capitalism
from the Joker as a terrorist dandy who awakens Americans to their
corruption by a consumer society. To protect is to prevent harm.
Capitalism is a system where some people own the means of
production and rent them to others who make goods. A terrorist seeks
to change by harming bystanders as much as culprits. A dandy is an
aesthete who prizes art above people. To awaken people to their
corruption is to help them see how their deeds are going bad.
Consumer society is a capitalist system where people compete with
each other to display themselves as successes by standards of power,
beauty, and money promoted relentlessly through advertising and
other public relations.
The Joker\u2019s three campaigns of terrorism target consumer-
society standards. These attacks enact the Joker\u2019s dandified,
perfectionist ideas of \u201chomicidal art.\u201d Defending people from the
Joker\u2019s attacks, the Batman (Michael Keaton) protects capitalism in the
American mode of consumer society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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