Summarize briefly the ways in which this director meets those criteria using examples from at least two of the director’s films.

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Assignment Prior
to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 8 of Film:
From Watching to Seeing, as well as your instructor’s guidance and lecture
materials, (Below) and Chapter 7
from Film Genre Reader IV (Links to an external
site.). The ENG225 Research Guide (Links to an external site.) in
the University of Arizona Global Campus Library will be particularly helpful in
locating required sources.This assignment is your opportunity to apply the
auteur theory to the work of one selected director. To do that, you will watch
at least two feature-length films by the same director as the basis for your
analysis and argument.
Note: You should watch
any chosen film twice—once to ensure that you have grasped the storytelling and
once to take more specific notes on aspects of the film you wish to discuss.
You may choose any appropriate director, but be sure to consider the three
criteria of auteur theory before making your selection. Reflect on the film you
chose in your Week 2 written assignment and look ahead to the Week 5 Final
Paper guidelines to ensure that you choose a film for this assignment that will
work with the requirements on the Week 5 Final Paper. You may opt to write
about the same film in your Week 2 written assignment and Week 5 Final Paper,
and applicable pieces of this assignment can be used to write both. If you do
this, you should reflect on and revise this assignment based on the
instructor’s feedback before you incorporate it into any future writing
assignments.
Your
paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how your
chosen director and his/her films meet the criteria posed by auteur theory and
advance the possibilities of storytelling through the medium of film. Review
the Week 3 Sample Paper Download Week 3 Sample Paper, which
provides a clear guide for developing a solid analysis as well as insight on
composition.
In your paper,
·
Explain auteur theory.
o Describe,
using Chapter 8 of the text as a reference, the criteria for what makes a
director an auteur.
·
Identify a director who meets the criteria
posed by auteur theory
o Summarize
briefly the ways in which this director meets those criteria using examples
from at least two of the director’s films.
·
Apply the lens of auteur theory in breaking
down the director’s technical competence, distinguishable personality, and
interior meaning using specific examples of his/her work (e.g., particular
scenes or plot components).
·
Analyze the specific ways in which filmmaking
techniques, consistent themes, and storytelling distinguish your chosen
director as an auteur among his/her peers.
The Directors and Auteur
Theory paper
·
Must be 900 to 1200 words
in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the
University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
·
Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title
of Your Essay (in bold)
o Your
First and Last Name
o University
of Arizona Global Campus
o Course
Code: Name of Course (e.g., ENG 225: Introduction to Film)
o Instructor’s
name
o Due
Date
For
further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
·
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource
for additional guidance.
·
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your
introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that
indicates the purpose of your paper.
o For
assistance on writing Introductions &
Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as
well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links
to an external site.), refer to the University
of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center resources.
·
Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the
course text.
o The Scholarly,
Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external
site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source
types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for
this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final
say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
o To
assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view
this University
of Arizona Global Campus Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external
site.) tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona
Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library
search tips.
·
Must document any information used from sources in APA style as
outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.
·
Must include a separate references page that is formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus
Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References
List (Links to an external site.) resource
in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center for specifications.

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