5-page minimum written Essays: you will address a chosen topic and connect it to the trends and cinematic movements discussed in class. Your topic must fall within the historic period of our class and must match the various international film movements we discussed in class. Any production after 1945 from any country or regional culture should not be considered. Successful papers will require thorough research beyond the class discussions and sometimes multiple movies to review. 
Compare techniques and themes in films from two cinemas – i.e., American Birth of a Nation with FrenchNapoleon, etc. 
Analyze a film within the context of a time, place, or movement, covered in class – i.e., Battleship Potemkineand Soviet Montage Cinema, Safety Last and the Hollywood Comics period, etc.
Analyze a director/auteur’s career from this period – pick a technique (close-ups, lighting, set design, etc.) and discuss its uses in a film from this period. Example: editing in Intolerance, lighting, and camera in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, etc.
Select a film from and deeper into a movement/cinema from the studied period that you’d like explore more. Example: Hollywood social realism, the battle of the sizes and the war between film and TV, Post-war Classicism in France, The Hollywood war on the Code, the impact of format and color, the collapse of the studio system, Exploring the subconscious in German cinema, and many more… 

WRITTEN ESSAY: Place your name, course number, the assignment, the title of the movie and the due date in a separate cover page.      Quotations and paraphrasing should be kept to a minimum. You are expected to footnote all references, attach your bibliography and footnotes on a separate page. Footnotes and bibliography in Chicago style (use owl.purdue.edu as reference)Example of footnote for book: First name last name, Title of Resource. (City of publication: Publisher, year published), page