| activity seven Holocaust (A) This is the individual student’s part of this week’s assignment. (1) View Schindler’s List. What is the meaning of the girl in the red dress? (To receive full credit your paragraph(s) on the scene needs to interact with at least one aspect of the ‘to read film’ unit, namely, camera, staging, light, sound, editing, story, ending, connotation, genre, or intertextuality.) (2) Read Schnittjer’s notes on human evil (see class page); Belton, American Cinema/American Culture, 4th ed., chap 9 [3d ed., chap 9]. View The Combat Film. Complete reading report 7 on class page which will include places to put the paragraph(s) on the items mentioned above. (B) This part of this week’s assignment is to be completed as a group. (1) Read Johnston, Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue. 2d ed., (2006), 55-79 (see class page). The group will select five of the “purpose statements” that the group members gathered in the previous activity. Explain which of Johnston’s categories each of the five fits into, and explain why. Also, explain benefits and shortcomings of each approach to film and theology represented by the purpose statements. (This assignment will illustrate, in part, the group’s “information literacy.” The group’s ability to effectively evaluate information and incorporate it into the group’s shared value system will be demonstrated by the quality of explanations they produce.) (2) The group will select and view any film from list 6 or list 11. Interpret the theological implications of a scene in the film using one of the purpose statements you evaluated (be sure to make explicit which purpose statement you are using and why). (To receive full credit your explanation of the scene needs to interact with at least one aspect of the ‘to read film’ unit, namely, camera, staging, light, sound, editing, story, ending, connotation, genre, or intertextuality.) (3) One member of your group will upload the group’s paper on the class page. The paper needs to include the explanation of the five purpose statements (including the website’s address in each case), and the interaction with the group’s film. The entire paper should not exceed five pages. Click here if your group wishes to use a free online tool to assist in group work (not required). Copyright © ScriptureWorkshop.com |