Analysis/ Review Paper (#3) – Crown 80A – Winter 2017
Due in draft form on Feb 21. Final due on Feb. 23.
Content: We do analysis in science all the time. Take your scientific skills and apply them to a text.
Questions you might ask and perspectives you might take if analyzing a work of fiction or a film:
· Take the ideas of Carr, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Jung, Fanon, Haraway, Campbell, Kaku, Arendt, and/ or Jameson. In what ways do their ideas suggest new thoughts about your text? New ways of looking at the characters or the plot?
· Look at value assumptions, ethical positions, and/or rationalizations from the Diestler book. What values and ethical positions are supported in the text? Which ones are critiqued? Or does the text try to work out conflicting positions?
· In what ways is the fictional text or film re-playing and possibly satirizing or parodying older plots? What purpose(s) do you see?
· What is original, gripping, thought-provoking, or otherwise significant about the fictional text or film? Why? How?
· Possible issues to use for analyzing a film version of a fictional text: all of the above, plus cinematography, acting, special effects, screenplay, action sequences, emotional effect, etc.
Possible questions for analyzing non-fiction texts:
· What is original, gripping, thought-provoking, or otherwise significant about the non-fictional text? Does it expand your mind? Why? How?
· How does this text connect to theoretical pieces you already know? If it connects, does it contradict or support those pieces?
· Have you seen the ideas in your text embodied in other texts, up-to-date or outdated? What is the effect of that connection?
· Does the writer’s style allow you to understand the ideas or does the style get in the way of comprehension?
· Is what the writer says true? How do you know?
· What connections can you see between this non-fiction text and any of the fictional texts we have read or films you have seen? Do those connections help you to have a new view of the non-fiction text?
Form: 1200-1500 words. See notes on course syllabus.
Also required: quotations from students during class discussion (minimum of two)
Extensive quotation from the text you are analyzing
Summary of the text you are analyzing.
Works Cited
Not required: traditional format. You may use journalistic style, letter style, dialogue between two or three characters, Rotten Tomato scores, fake Wikipedia article, etc.