How do either Todd Haynes’ Safe or Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman create a good case study for the Formal Analysis of cinema? Quote and cite page numbers from Writing About Movies and Viktor Shklovsky’s “Art as Technique.” (N.B. Do not write about the same film twice on this exam.)
Question #2: Cultural Analysis. How do either Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman or Todd Haynes’ Safe create a good case study for the Cultural Analysis of cinema? Quote and cite page numbers from Writing About Movies and Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” (Reminder: Do not write about the same film twice on this exam.)
Question #3: Antonioni. How does Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura challenge our expectations of what a narrative film should be? Discuss form, content, and cultural context here. Quote from and cite page numbers from BFI Film Classics: L’Avventura and Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation.” (On this answer, you are not required to quote from Writing About Movies.)
