Steven Spielberg
(A) Read Gabler, Life the Movie, chapter 5. Select a quote from the reading and explain its significance and implications in one paragraph. Bring Gabler, Life the Movie to class with the quote you selected marked. Also read Schnittjer’s notes on implications of Facebook’s edited reality.
(B) View Munich (entire film). Then, view the final scene several times, reflect on the setting and take notes -- the closing scene on the playground in Queens, across the East River from the United Nations building (center of image below). Write an interpretation of the meaning and implications of the closing scene (one paragraph). In what ways does Munich reflect “an eye for an eye” and in what ways “do not take revenge but leave room for the wrath of God, as it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay says the Lord’”? (one paragraph) (To receive full credit your paragraphs need 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.)
(C) Read Belton, American Cinema/American Culture, 4th ed., chaps 16, 17 (film school generation, into the twenty-first century) [3d ed., chaps 16, 17], and read article on Steven Spielberg. View any film from list 3. Select a scene and write a paragraph on its cultural significance. (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.)
Complete reading report 11 on class page which will include places to put the paragraph(s) on the items mentioned above.
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