Short Essay – Film Scene Analysis
Write a 4-5 page double spaced scene analysis of a film of your choosing. Your analysis should address queer or heteronormative worldmaking in the film, by conducting a ‘thickly described” close reading of the selected scene …without centrally focusing on plot or character. How do the formal elements (the narrative structure (but not plot), temporality, editing, framing, set, lighting etc.), of the film or its philosophy (i.e its implicit grounding assumptions), queer this scene, or render it normative rather than queer? Make sure there is a clear theoretical framework, with respect to queerness as a concept, intersectionality, antirelationality, negative or reparative approach, affect or some other concept addressed in the course (choose 1 or 2 of these themes). Cite 2 articles from the course.
