Friday, 30 June 2017

Tragedy movies: holiday viewing

1) Pick a film from the below.


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Cool Hand Luke

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

There Will Be Blood

The Wrestler

Dancer in the Dark

House of Sand and Fog

Grizzly Man (documentary)


Se7en


Papillon

2) Watch it TWICE.



3) The second time, make notes to prepare a 5 minute presentation of 5 slides. Each slide should tackle the following:
1) Summary of the plot and its major character.
2) How the character meets tragic conventions
3) How the plot meets tragic conventions
4) Aristotelian conventions that are covered in the craft (thought, diction, spectacle etc)
5) Which form of tragedy the film most closely resembles (Senecan, Greek, Renaissance, Early Modern etc)
6) Its success in 'teaching' us or 'changing' us.


Save these to the R drive on your first day back under 'Tragic film presentations'.

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