For this assignment you will write a 1,500-word essay that focuses on analysis of a single media text. You may select any of the assigned media texts from the following list:
• The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1958)
• The Mandalorian (Jon Favreau, 2019-20)
• American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000)
• Nosferatu The Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
• Mulan (Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook, 1998)
• Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, 2019)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
• The Office (Greg Daniels et al, 2005-2013)
You may select any single media text you wish from the list. You must then pair the media text you have selected with one of the essay topics from the following list:
- Using examples from the media text you have selected, discuss the way this film constructs a sense of hyper-reality through its editing and/or special effects.
- Using examples from the media text you have selected, discuss its semiosphere and how social commentary is generated through the use of common characteristics of its genre
- Using examples from the media text you have selected, discuss how the political-economic structures of the cultural industries may have shaped the content of this media text.