How do the filmmakers position us to see something in their world?

Choose a conflict to explore in Wajib moive. . Conflicts include: gender relations, generational differences, resistance vs. acquiescene. Explore the conflict as it unfolds in two brief scenes. Describe each scene in detail, applying your “close reading” skills to the film: quote dialog, note body language, and analyze how elements of setting, sound, or editing contribute. In at least three pages, make an argument about how choices or techniques of the filmmakers generate effects on the audience, for a specific purpose. How do the filmmakers position us to see something in their world?

Continue to engage with terms from Critchley’s On Humour such as types of humor (superiority, relief, incongruity, reactionary), sensus communus, parochialism and “aneasthesia of the heart,” as they are relevant.

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