Key Concepts for Chapter 8

NOTE: NEW DATE FOR QUIZ

There will be a very brief Reading Reward (quiz) on MONDAY, 3/31 on some of the key concepts from Chapter 8 of our textbook, Understanding Movies. The best way to prepare is to thoroughly read Chapter 8, completing the fill-in-the-blank handout (that you received last week) as you go, and focusing on the following terms and concepts:

• Study the general features of these major narrative structures: classical, formalistic, realistic, and nonfictional
• Mimesis & diegesis
• Genre conventions
• The classical paradigm
• Cinema verite
• Rites of passage

Good luck!

Blog Topic #1 - DUE SUNDAY, 3/23 @ 9:00 p.m.

Jesus Camp & the Style Spectrum for Documentaries

Note: You cannot post to this blog from school; you must access it from home. 

Write a well-developed paragraph arguing where you place Jesus Camp on the Style Spectrum for Documentaries. Give Jesus Camp a number from 1-10 and at least 3 specific examples as to why you place the film where you do.

Respond by leaving your paragraph as a COMMENT on this posting by clicking on the "No comments" link below. Once you submit your comment you will be unable to see it until I publish it after the due date.

(I highly recommend writing and saving your paragraph in a word processor and then copying and pasting it into the comment field on this blog page.)

For full credit on this home work assignment, your comment must be a minimum of 1 well-written, well-developed paragraph (5-7 sentences) that follows the criteria above. Comments that are not proofread will receive a zero.

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