Please select from the following films:
The New World (2005)
I Remember Mama (1948)
Atanarjuat (2001)
The Namesake (2006)
Brooklyn (2015)
Smoke Signals (1998)
Gangs of New York (2002)
El Norte (1984)
In America (2003)
American Me (1992)
The immigrant (2014)
An American Tail (1986)
The Godfather II (1974)
The Visitor (2007)
Coming to America (1988)
West Side Story (1971 or 2021)
Green Card (1990)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
My Antonia (1995)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
American Sniper (2014)
American Underdog (2021)
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
America, America (1963)
Entre Nos (2009)
Minari (2019)
Requiem for the American Dream (2016)
Harlem on the Prairie (1937)
Pleasantville (1998)
Dearbourn Ash (2019)
Complete your worksheet and submit it with your film analysis in which you consider some aspect of American identity, the American Dream, who and what is an American, or who and what is not American. Please be sure to integrate as many film terms as possible (without being pedantic) in the discussion of your film. Eight to ten pages, worksheet questions:
10-CRITICAL SCENES (Approx. time code/ title for the scene/brief description):
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11-SCENE SIGNIFICANCE A.
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12-Cinematography
13-Meanings 14-Mise-en-scène (
15-Meanings
16-Editing 17-Meanings
18-Sound (music, effects, dialogue, intensity, motifs, diegetic, non-diegetic)
19-Meanings (e.g., how do these formal elements influence your understanding of the film, the topics explored, and the overall theme)
20-The cast of Characters and Actors
21-Meaning (e.g., how do the performances influence your understanding of the film, the topics explored, and the overall theme)
Theoretical Lens
22-What approach will you take to writing about this film? Why?