[SOLVED] Film Analysis Paper
Write a 6-page media analysis paper for the film of your choosing. The film should be one that had an impact on the political, social, racial, or economic climate of its time. A few examples of such films can be more historic, like Gone With The Wind or Birth of A Nation, The Imitation of Life or they can be more contemporary like Get Out, Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians. In your paper you will conduct a three-fold analysis in which you will outline your understanding of your chosen media film. To understand a media product, one must: – Understand the socioeconomic context of its creation/production. – Analyze its constructed meanings through: visual, verbal, and auditory languages/codes. – Through ethnographic research, analyze what its audience contributed/contributes to its meaning and making, as well as to its cultural production and distribution. Through the analysis of the above points, you will be able to: – Decode the media and understand how media often translates into political power. – Understand the extent in which corporate voices often become our opinions and views. – Investigate the capacities in which media creates dominant ideologies, and how those particular ideologies become normative culture. In your paper, your three-fold analysis will contain an understanding and exploration of the: – Production and its political economy – Textual Analysis, – Audience Reception Example: can be the film Get Out. Consider the political climate of the production. What was happening? How did this film impact the audience? Analyze the film in a way that requires you to read between the lines. Understand the messages that the film is trying to narrate through the visuals, audio, camera angles, color schemes, scene duration, etc. Who do the film messages impact? How did the audience receive it? I watched the film 3 times in theaters – once the first day it was released, and the second a day after Philando Castile’s murder. As an audience member, I was impacted differently during both viewings. If you’re analyzing a film that you watched in theaters, try to remember audience responses. I remember there being scenes that only white audience members found to be humorous, but the reality of it was that these scenes depicted extremely dark humor that only Black people can understand and were pained through. Is there an irony here? If so, what? These are just a few examples of points to consider while analyzing your media. ***Reference the readings below to jog your memory of the three-fold-analysis:- Dines & Humez, Part I. A Cultural Studies Approach to Media: Theory (Intro)- Kellner, Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, and Media Culture (ch.1) (Textbook reference well be put in a pdf below)
