This assignment would focus on a movie "Saving Private Ryan" Submit a 500-word proposal for your Final Paper. This paper will be less a research paper than an analytical or critical paper, one that plans to examine closely a particular film "as art.

Your paper should employ the tools you are building in your critical arsenal and create an argument about how these techniques function and produce a particular meaning. Choose a major theme of the film and explore how the film deals with that theme. For example, if you were writing on Fight Club, you might choose the theme of mascuilinity. If you were writing on Miracle on 34th Street, you could focus on economics.

If you wrote about Pan's Labyrinth, you could examine how vision/seeing is portrayed. -Focus on a short scene/sequence from the film, utilizing for tools for formal analysis and creating an argument about how the scene functions in the broader context of the film. This would entail picking a scene that is emblematic or representative of the film's overall style, narrative, and thematic concerns. (I always like choosing opening sequences for this kind of approach.) I've found close analysis of scenes deeply rewarding in movies like All About My Mother, Hiroshima mon amour, and Gravity. Thank you.