FILM

IMPORTANT POINTS:

The topic must clearly focus on film or television, rather than a literary, sociological, political or historical issue.

For example, a study of film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays or of classic novels must not become a literature essay about the plays or the novels. It must be a discussion about the films from a filmic point of view.

The topic needs to offer enough scope for a substantial essay without being too general.

The research question must give the essay a sharp focus within the topic and you have to be perfectly clear about the following.

• What arguments or points of view will you develop or prove in the course of the essay?

• What needs to be said about the topic?

• How will you use evidence to support the ideas under discussion?

• What evidence will be appropriate?

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