Step 1: Choose a theme, such as gender issues, generational conflict, identity, freedom, war, heroism, love vs duty, power, etc.
Step 2: Compare and contrast how the theme is interpreted, critiqued, and/or re-envisioned in two films. One of the films must be a film we have watched in the course; the second film may be a film of your choice but should be an American (or foreign) film that is widely-available and well-known to US audiences
In your paper, you should focus on how the films use cinematic and narrative techniques to emphasize themes, develop characters and their relationships, or critique the society in which the films were created. Overall, your goal is to develop an argument about how the films construct the theme and why the films interpret the theme as they do.
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