Pan's Labyrinth Analysis

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English W131 Elementary Composition English W131 Elementary Composition E2 E2 Essay 1: Film Analysis Description: 4-5 pages, double-spaced, plus a separate MLA-format Works Cited page Sources: 1) Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (or Psycho--TBA) 2) “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” and one to two other essays Total Points: 250 Due Dates: Rough draft (3 copies) due Wednesday, November 7; Final draft due Monday, November 12 ------------------------------------------------- The Assignment Analyze a film’s representation of an issue, idea, or specific historical occurrence using evidence from one or more film scenes. Perform a close analysis of your chosen scene(s) and develop a thesis that engages specific cinematic details to form an argument about the film as a whole. Apply two RAW essays as lenses to extend and complicate your argument, using them in service of this essay’s larger goal: to enhance the reader’s understanding of the film. ------------------------------------------------- Strategies For getting started / For your thesis: Consider how the themes and concepts from your RAW essays interact to provide you with different angles from which to form an argument about your chosen film. Use tools for visual analysis and “The Method” on the film to generate specific, concrete details. You may focus your argument on two or more scenes (roughly 4-6 minute segments), but remember to use “10 on 1” rather than “1 on 10”. Use those details to make an argument about how the film represents an issue, question or phenomenon. WA’s suggestions for X-Y thesis statements (101-2) may be helpful here. For structuring your argument: With your claim and the essays in mind, choose your representative and complicating evidence from the film carefully. Apply “10 on 1” (WA 211-3) to the evidence you choose in order to say more about less.

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