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FORMATTING: This is a two-part assignment: the first part will include 2-3 pags of screening
notes and the second part will include a single 350-
word formal paragraph (please double space the paragraph)+ works cited (any format, just be
consistent throughout the assignment)
DESCRIPTION:
Purpose: This assignment is meant to help you develop your close reading skills. Close reading
is a vital part of the analysis. It’s where you gather the specific details from the text you’re
analyzing, so you can make your argument. It allows you to look at all of the elements of a text
to see how they work together to convey a particular message, mood, or idea.
Guidelines:
1. Select a scene from the list below. I’ve given you a list of example scenes/clips that take
up the idea of monstrosity.
2. Watch your selected scene multiple times and make notes about every visual, aural, or
narrative detail that you notice. You’ll want to attend to such elements as: dialogue,
costume, lighting, shot sequence, shot length, shot composition (including framing and
foreground/background), camera angles, plot developments, notable editing techniques
(e.g. jump cuts, fades, shot-reverse-shot sequences, etc.), sound, music, setting,
noteworthy objects or props, and the context of the scene (i.e. where it appears in the
overall film).
3. A paragraph of 350-w must be written that makes a focused, precise argument about how the
scene you chose subverts typical narratives about monstrosity as it attaches itself to
particular bodies (BIPOC people, the ‘terrorist body,’ fatness, queerness, etc.). How does
your chosen scene resist the idea of the bodies being presented as “monstrous”? Your
argument should emerge from the way that you think with the details you’ve noticed and
interpreted in the first part of the assignment.
One of the keys here is to be selective about what you include in this paragraph. Not
every detail that you’ve observed will be important, but there should be a cluster of them
that work together in some way, allowing you to build from one point to the next in order
to develop a tight, nuanced analysis.
4. Some guiding questions that might help you address the idea of ‘monstrosity’ – you do
not have to answer all of these questions; they are merely to get you to start thinking
about how you might approach this assignment:
● Who is being framed as the monster in this scene? Is there one?
● Who would you consider the monster in this scene?
● Is the obvious character the monster in this scene? Or is it subverting the idea of
monstrosity?
● Is there a straightforward division between a constructed “hero” and “monster”?
● How do other characters react to the monstrous character in this scene?
● Does it make the audience reconsider any of their assumptions about who is being
posited as the monster?
● Can you relate this scene to any of the concepts we’ve studied so far in the course
(eg. racialization, neoliberalism, ideology, hegemony, reception, orientalism, the
oppositional gaze, disidentification, feminism, afrofuturism)?
5. Your paragraph should be formal academic writing and analysis. It should include the
following elements:
a. A title that clearly reflects the content of your paragraph.
b. A thesis statement that clearly states the main argument/point of your paragraph.
c. Specific textual details from your scene (but don’t spend the entire paragraph
simply summarizing the scene – be judicious about which details you include
here).
d. Reference at least one course reading from either of the weeks on Media
Monsters. You can refer to course readings from other weeks but at least one must
be from the Media Monsters weeks.
e. A concluding sentence that sums up your overall points.
f. Include your word count at the end of your formal paragraph.
g. Proper in text citations and a works cited page
Other formatting notes:
● Please note that we are asking for a single 350-w paragraph for your analysis. We will
be marking specifically for how you make your argument within one paragraph, so if you
break up your analysis into multiple paragraphs, it will affect your mark on this
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