Here is the prompt:
Perform a researched, semiotic analysis of a TV program or movie of your choosing. Try to conceptualize not just your favorite program or film, but rather something you are familiar with that has larger thematic concerns, and has gravitas to analyze. You should view your choice several times and takes notes so you can be as specific as possible in your essay. This is a 3-4 page analysis with a minimum of 3 outside sources.
Note: the subject of your analysis, TV or film, is your primary source. If you wind up comparing two programs or films, then you have multiple primary sources. The research requirement is for secondary sources, scholarship you incorporate and discuss in the body of your essay.
Consider the following approaches to this essay:
Outside In: With this approach you are analyzing the primary source through the lens of its placement in time, structure, and theme as it relates to its genre. Consider its associations and differences. In chapter 3, the authors discussed Orange is the New Black (OITNB) as it relates to a multitude of other shows. Chapter 4’s introduction does the same while analyzing Godzilla. Analyze your primary source from this perspective.
Inside Out: With this approach you are explicating the primary source in depth for all its signs and their meanings to get to its larger thematic concern, or argue the filmmaker’s objective. Again referring to chapter 3, also with OITNB, the authors looked inward at a specific episode called “The Chickening” where they unpacked the symbolism of that episode in depth.
Please choose a show or movie of your liking
NO PLAIGERISM
NEED FINISHED BY 12 PM EASTERN tIME TOMORROW MARCH 26th 2019