What cultural problem or anxiety is addressed in your chosen media texts? What do these texts tell us about how that anxiety is felt or resolved in each text’s respective cultural context? Do they expose, reinforce, or critique a collective value or ideological conflict? Explore these questions by examining how these texts convey meaning through two genre conventions (such as a specific character archetype, point in narrative/plot structure, setting, piece of iconography, prop, theme, specific elements of camerawork or sound, etc.).
Building on skills developed in the shot analysis, your analysis should draw on specific textual evidence to support your readings of these texts. Demonstrate how these genre conventions convey meaning through formal elements and techniques in a specific scene to support your argument. Do not provide plot summaries. Instead, focus on an individual scene, sequence, episode (in the case of television), or story mission (in the case of video games) in your media text. If you’re choosing a character archetype, for example, focus on one specific action or behavior rather than a broad analysis of that character.
You will also need to use three scholarly sources (one provided below, two from your own research) to support your argument.
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