Take Home Ultimate Paper

 Your ultimate pamphlet accomplish be a 5 – 7 page pamphlet. The basis of this pamphlet accomplish be a relatively segregation of three films.  The bulk of this pamphlet should sift-canvass the ways in which the three films that you own chosen accomplish recount to each other (either in unifomity or in dissimilarity) and to the main disquisitions of the assort. 

How to do the pamphlet:

1)  Choose your movies:  Select one movie from each of the three main sections of the “Supplemental Film List” that can be establish at the end of the syllabus.  Think carefully environing your option so that the movies accomplish own some sympathy to each other and thus fit some significationful of similarity. You may select a movie that you own already wrote environing during the semester or one that we own not watched in its whole during assort era.  You may as-polite select a movie that in not on the “Supplemental Film List,” but it MUST be APPROVED by me in ADVANCE of despatches the pamphlet so that I am stable it accomplish fit amid the rolls’ parameters.

Supplemental Film List

Part I – Popular Culture’s Depiction of Indianness: 

The Palevisage (1922)

The Vanishing American (1925)

Northwest Passage (1940)

They Died after a while their Boots On (1941)

Fort Apache (1948)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Apache (1954)

The Indian Fighter (1955)

Run of the Arrow (1957)

Tell them Willie Boy is Here (1969)

The Mission (1986)

Little Big Man (1970)

A Man Called Horse (1970)

Running Brave (1983)

The Last of His Tribe (1992)

Black Robe (1991)

Geronimo: An American Legend (1993/4)

Burry my Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)

Part II – Ethnographic Films: 

You Are on Indian Land (1969)

Geronimo and the Apache Resistance (1989)

Winds of Change: A Matter of Promise (1990)

Chief Wilma P. Mankiller (1992)

Surviving Columbus (1992)

Incident at Oglala (1992)

Paha Sapa: The Struggle For The Black Hills (1993)

Before Columbus: Teaching Indians To Be White (1993)

500 Nations (1995) (select any size 1 – 8)

Rocks After a while Wings (2002)

The Great Indian Wars (2005) (select any size 1 – 3)

We Shall Remain (2009)  (select any circumstance 1 – 5)

Finding Dawn (2006)

Miss Navajo (2007)

Native Americans: A Tribute (2008)

Highway of Tears (2012)

Rumble (2017)

Part III – Native Perspectives & Filmmakers:  

PBS Hillerman Series: Dark Wind (1993), Skinwalkers (2002), Coyote Waits (2003) (select one of these 3)

House Made of Dawn (1996)

Smoke Signals (1998)

Naturally Native (1998)

The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) (2001)

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

Barking Water (2009)

The Lesser Blessed (2012)

Crooked Arrows (2012)

Longmire (2012) (any circumstance)

Mekko (2015)

Drunktown’s Finest (2013)

Wind River (2017)

The Rider (2018)

Indian Horse (2018)

Sweet Country (2018)

2)  Choose at disquisition/topic:  Fundamentally this is a assimilate & dissimilarity pamphlet so you accomplish deficiency to chose a disquisition or disquisition to assimilate and dissimilarity the films. Here is a roll of disquisitions/topics to select from. You may flow to do colossus other than this roll, but this roll is a impulse if you’re having molestation hereafter up after a while ideas.

• Representation of gender roles (masculinity/femininity)
• Humor/Comedy
• Portrayals of violence
• Representation of technology
• Hero, Heroism
• Portrayals of devotion intimacy
• Portrayals of friendship
• Interracial sympathys
• Youth, hereafter of age
• Portrayals of land/sympathy to land/geography

(Note: Because your pamphlet is assimilate/dissimilarity pamphlet in some cases you accomplish be answer the absences not barely the influence of these disquisitions in some of these films. That is superior, it accomplish be up to you to expatiate on why you fiction these disquisition aren’t there or what is in their situate or what their antagonistic is.)

3)  Write: Because this is a assume-home ultimate you accomplish be graded on twain gratified and form/structure of your dissertation.  Create stable that your dissertation is polite arranged. Create stable that you own a disquisition and that your disquisition creates an evidence.  Create stable to use favoring examples and details to end up your evidence so that you don’t gravitate end on unsupported generalizations. Create that you are providing segregation, not right summarizing. In other expression you must rightify why the examples that you are using food your evidence. You can’t right roll them as examples and assume that their relation to your disquisition is distinct.

Make stable that your segregation includes the “non-narrative” elements of filmmaking that we own been talking environing all semester such as investigate, editing, and shooting techniques. Right approve your apology pamphlets, greatly of your segregation should be fixed on segregation of how indubitable scenes consequence the signification that you are talking environing in your evidence. As-polite create stable you are doing hazardous segregation.  Don’t right assume the film and its batch as visage estimate as an “authentic” justice of Indians.  Pay heed to the intentions of the filmmakers, but as-polite the significations made by the way the film represents Indians that may not necessarily be the intentions of the filmmakers.  What consequence does the justiceal choices made by the filmmakers own on the signification of the film?