Global requirements

Some of these requirements refer to our upcoming reading "The Hollywood Sign: The Culture of American Film."

• 100% authentic writing; no writing generated by generative Ai ChatBots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, GoogleTranslate, etc.) and attempt to "Mix Academic and Colloquial Styles" (122)

• Creatively and critically answer the questions on your selected prompt

• Choose your example films or shows strategically

• Introduce and summarize the plot and character composition of example films and/or tv shows 

• Introduce one or more authors from our texts, summarizing, quoting, and interacting with their ideas and theories; in-text citation using proper MLA formatting

• Use the Quotation Sandwich!

• Read the signs you identify from the films you choose in order to determine the "connotative significance by situating [them] in a historically informed system of associated and differentiated signs" (443)

• In other words, tell your readers what the signs tell us about the value systems or attitudes the popular audience holds and how this might relate to what was or is happening historically

• Consider the popularity of your, the critical acclaim (or defame) and box office success or failure

• Consider evidence by "Reading Film Online" (449)

• Perfect MLA formatting

• 1800-2400 words (5-7 pages)