Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the discussion of genre in Chapter 3 of Film: From
Watching to Seeing. This assignment is your opportunity to demonstrate understanding of one selected genre.
To do that, you will watch a full feature-length film from that genre.
Choose film is Groundhog Day 1993.
Note: You should watch your chosen film twice—once to ensure that you have grasped the storytelling and
once to take more specific notes on aspects of the film you wish to discuss.
Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how your chosen feature-length film
both aligns with and expands upon your chosen genre.
In your paper,
• Explain genre theory and, using Chapter 3 of the text as a reference, describe the conventions and attributes
of the genre you have selected.
• Identify a feature-length film that fits your selected genre and briefly summarize the movie. As you develop
this summary, remember the differences between a film’s story and a film’s plot, and be sure to highlight
specific genre elements.
• Interpret at least two genre conventions exhibited in your chosen feature-length film that help classify it in the
selected genre. Be sure to provide a specific example of each convention (e.g., a particular scene or plot
component).
• Provide an example of a third convention from your chosen feature-length film and explain how this
convention expands the boundaries of the specified genre.
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