Journal / Analytical Essay
When grading your journal, I will be looking for the following:
1) Did you follow the page count requirement? Do you have at least fifteen full pages, typed and double spaced? Is each entry (there are four total) approx four pages? Did you include a Works Cited page, as a separate page (not included in the page count requirement)?
2) Did you discuss the real life horrors that the books and films might deal with, in detail? Do you connect these to the time and place the book/film was created? Are they specific enough--for example, if you are writing about American Psycho, you could discuss how the film unpacks 1980's Wall Street and shows how yuppie culture, and unchecked capitalist greed, leads to horror. To give another example, you could discuss how The VVwitch deals with the Puritan's belief system in the supernatural and their fear of the unknown in a new land, where their lives were very harsh (because it is a modern film, it is presented in a feminist way--arguably in favor of the witch).
*You'll want at least two outside, *scholarly* sources for each film or book. You should use historical, sociological, cultural, film studies, or literary sources from the library's databases. The three sources are in addition to the two primary sources (the film and book), for a total of five sources. Do not just Google!
3) Do you provide lots of examples from the work you are looking at? (You should include plenty, and cite them properly).
4) You should do some comparing of books to films and films to books, discussing intersecting or overlapping ideas or themes between them.
5) Is your thinking original? Or are you just re-hashing what we discussed in class? You can use our discussions as a jumping off point, but please don't simply regurgitate what we covered in class entirely.
As a reminder, you are comparing. For example, you might want to write about Rosemary's Baby and Jennifer's Body, discussing the ways in which these two narratives intersect in the ways they deal with women's bodies and the devil.
*Please note that you do not want to simply summarize the book/film. You need to be making socio-political connections beyond simply describing what happens in the book or film.
**You may also choose to divide your paper using sub-headings to organize it by novel/film.
1) Did you follow the page count requirement? Do you have at least fifteen full pages, typed and double spaced? Is each entry (there are four total) approx four pages? Did you include a Works Cited page, as a separate page (not included in the page count requirement)?
2) Did you discuss the real life horrors that the books and films might deal with, in detail? Do you connect these to the time and place the book/film was created? Are they specific enough--for example, if you are writing about American Psycho, you could discuss how the film unpacks 1980's Wall Street and shows how yuppie culture, and unchecked capitalist greed, leads to horror. To give another example, you could discuss how The VVwitch deals with the Puritan's belief system in the supernatural and their fear of the unknown in a new land, where their lives were very harsh (because it is a modern film, it is presented in a feminist way--arguably in favor of the witch).
*You'll want at least two outside, *scholarly* sources for each film or book. You should use historical, sociological, cultural, film studies, or literary sources from the library's databases. The three sources are in addition to the two primary sources (the film and book), for a total of five sources. Do not just Google!
3) Do you provide lots of examples from the work you are looking at? (You should include plenty, and cite them properly).
4) You should do some comparing of books to films and films to books, discussing intersecting or overlapping ideas or themes between them.
5) Is your thinking original? Or are you just re-hashing what we discussed in class? You can use our discussions as a jumping off point, but please don't simply regurgitate what we covered in class entirely.
As a reminder, you are comparing. For example, you might want to write about Rosemary's Baby and Jennifer's Body, discussing the ways in which these two narratives intersect in the ways they deal with women's bodies and the devil.
*Please note that you do not want to simply summarize the book/film. You need to be making socio-political connections beyond simply describing what happens in the book or film.
**You may also choose to divide your paper using sub-headings to organize it by novel/film.
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