You are expected to use ONLY course materials (the films, Fabe’s book, assigned readings, the recommended textbook, lecture slides and notes) to help you answer the questions. These are the only sources that you are permitted to use for your answers. Do not use any other sources, print or online.
You must properly cite your uses of the texts, including but not limited to quotations. Please use either Chicago or MLA style. All exams will be checked for plagiarism.
If you wish to cite the lectures you can mark them in a footnote or parenthetical citation by the video number and time code (eg., Module 4.3, 15:38). If you are doing MLA style citations, you do not need to include the lectures in your works cited list.
*TIP: When using texts in your answer, you are looking to support your claim. This does not necessarily mean finding a moment in which the author says something directly about the film you are discussing. Instead, this might mean looking to her on a certain topic (like on editing, or a type of shot, or a definition of modernism, etc. etc.). Just because the author doesn’t write about the specific film you are discussing, this does not mean that she doesn’t have anything to say that will support your claim.
*ESSAY PROMPT!
Despite their great differences, we discussed both Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (USA, 1977) and Nelson Pereira dos Santos’s How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Brazil, 1971) as postmodern films.
Please write an essay in which you consider how each film is postmodern.
Produce a definition of postmodernism and how it operates in film, and support this definition with specific examples from each film.
What is the effect of the postmodern moves in each film?
How does each film and its particular postmodern gestures speak to the cultural and political context in which it was created?
Please draw upon the course texts and detailed analysis of specific scencixes in supporting your answer.
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