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Analysis Essay on "Embrace of the Serpent (FILM)
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//ABISOURCE//DTD XHTML plus AWML 2.2//EN" "http://www.abisource.com/2004/xhtml-awml/xhtml-awml.mod"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:awml="http://www.abisource.com/2004/xhtml-awml/"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" /> <title> Abiword HTML Document </title> </head> <body> <div> <p class="normal_(web)" style="margin-top:0.000000pt" awml:style="Normal (Web)"> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">Midterm Paper Topic </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529"> </span> </p> <p class="normal_(web)" style="margin-top:0.000000pt" awml:style="Normal (Web)"> <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">—Length: 3 to 4 typed pages, double space</span> </p> <p class="normal_(web)" style="margin-top:0.000000pt" awml:style="Normal (Web)"> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">Film: </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">Embrace of the Serpent </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">(</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">El abrazo de la serpiente</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">) </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">Ciro Guerra, 2015. The film is </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">posted in Week 3 </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">of this Moodle site. </span> </p> <p class="normal_(web)" style="margin-top:0.000000pt" awml:style="Normal (Web)"> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">Write an analysis of </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">Embrace of the Serpent</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529"> using one of the two methods of analysis listed below:</span> </p> <p class="normal_(web)" style="margin-top:0.000000pt" awml:style="Normal (Web)"> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#d60093">Follow these instructions carefully. Much of your grade depends on it!</span> </p> <p class="normal_(web)" style="margin-top:0.000000pt" awml:style="Normal (Web)"> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">1) Use of Kinds of Montage</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529"> — as identified and described by Sergei Einseinstein. This method is described in pages 37-38 of </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">Cultural Criticism. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">I have also posted two videos with helpful, illustrative examples in Week 3. </span> </p> <p class="normal_(web)" style="margin-top:0.000000pt" awml:style="Normal (Web)"> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">2) Use of Symbols, Indexes, and Icons</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529"> (i.e., of </span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">types of signs</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529"> according to the Peircean trichotomy of signs). These different types of signs are described in pages 74-79 of </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">Cultural Criticism.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529"> The videos posted in Week 2 and Week 4, are particularly helpful. </span> </p> <p class="normal_(web)" style="margin-top:0.000000pt" awml:style="Normal (Web)"> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">–Quote directly and often</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529"> from the theoretical sources you are using, whether they</span> <a name="_GoBack"> </a> <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529"> come from a printed or video format. You don’t have to use any other sources than the ones mentioned, but if you do, make sure you give the authors credit. All direct quotations must be documented. Use the MLA, APA or any other suitable style you prefer.</span> </p> <p class="normal_(web)" style="margin-top:0.000000pt" awml:style="Normal (Web)"> <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">–</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">Give your paper an original and creative title</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Segoe UI';color:#212529">—something that condenses the idea of your semiotic analysis and attracts the attention of your reader. </span> </p> <p> </p> </div> </body></html> ">
