• 1 MMCC1005 Film Analysis Tasks Due date: Week 12, 23:55 (11:55pm) 23/10/2023 Weighting: 40% Word length: Task A = 1 x 300 words Task B = 2 x 450 words Total word count is 1200 words (not including your reference list) 10% over or under 1200 words is fine. Task: You need to complete three of the below film analysis tasks. You must complete Task A, and you must choose 2 tasks from the Task B list. Make sure you discuss a different film for each task. For example, if you focus on The Rider for Task A, then you cant answer Question 2 about The Rider for Task B. Please include a list of reference for each task. Use the Harvard style of referencing. Submit all three tasks together in a single document to Turnitin. Please note we do not allow the use of generative artificial intelligence tools (GAIT) in the completion of this assessment task. If you have questions abut GAITs and your studies, please see this guide: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/academic-integrity/ai-tools A) Complete the following task: 1) Independently find one academic peer reviewed journal article that discusses one of these films: The Rider, You Were Never Really Here or Destroyer. This needs to be an academic journal article that is not provided in the required and recommended unit readings via Leganto. In other words, you must find the academic journal article by doing your own independent research. In 300 words, summarise the authors approach to the film. What argument/s does the author make about the film? Your discussion should consider the discipline the author is addressing (for example is it film studies, sociology, gender studies, or another discipline?). Please note that sometimes academic journals also publish film reviews. Film reviews are typically shorter than full -length academic articles. An academic journal article is longer than a simple film review, it will have a developed argument and will cite a number of other references. Make sure you use a full length journal article, and not a review, for this task. AND B) Choose 2 tasks to complete from the following options. Your response to each task should be 450 words in length. You need to engage with the relevant source/s on Leganto as directed and 2 your response may be strengthened by drawing on further relevant academic sources to support your analysis. 1) Analyse the star image of Saoirse Ronan or Joaquin Phoenix or Nicole Kidman. If you focus on Ronan, your analysis should include reference to her performance and role in Lady Bird. If you focus on Phoenix, your analysis should include reference to his performance and role in You Were Never Really Here. If you focus on Kidman, your analysis should include reference to her performance and role in Destroyer. You should also consider your chosen stars offscreen image. Include reference to Paul McDonalds book chapter Stardom as a System from Week 7 on Leganto. 2) How does The Rider experiment with genre conventions of the Western? Your analysis should focus on a specific scene from the film. Your response should include reference to the Week 8 required reading on Leganto (Thomas Schatzs book chapter Film genres and the genre film). 3) According to Todd Berliner, some scholars define independent film as a cluster of films that share certain formal or thematic properties (2018, p. 59). Focusing on either Lady Bird or The Farewell discuss how the films formal or thematic properties align with this definition of independent film. You should ground your discussion with specific examples from the film. You discussion should include reference to Todd Berliners article Legally Independent: The Exhibition of Independent Art Films, from Week 9 on Leganto. 4) Choose a scene from The Wolfpack or The Rider to analyse using Bill Nichols six modes of documentary as a framework. Your analysis should indicate which mode, or modes, are most relevant to your chosen scene and should outline the cinematic techniques used in the scene. Your discussion should include reference to Nichols book chapter How can we define documentary film, from Week 10 on Leganto. 5) In her introduction to Pervasive Animation, Suzanne Buchan asks What qualities or aesthetic possibilities do animation films present that transcend or subvert those of live-action film? (2013, p. 7). Respond to this question with reference to a specific scene from Persepolis. Your discussion should include reference to Buchans Introduction from Week 11 on Leganto.

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