Rabbit Proof Fence (2002), directed by Phillip Noyce. This film describes the harrowing journey of three native Australian girls who attempt to walk 1,500 miles to be with their families.
Your course paper will be a psychological analysis of one of the two movies listed previously. In your paper, which has a limit of 800 words, you’ll analyze the film you choose by pointing out how the characters or events in the film fit with ideas covered in this course. One way to write a great paper is to choose a theory or concept and examine it in great detail as it relates to multiple aspects of a film. Alternately, you may choose several theories or ideas and analyze how different parts of the film relate to each separate idea. Whatever you do, you should remember the Five Cs of good writing: correctness, clarity, coherence, conciseness, and creativity. It is thus crucial for you to specify correctly and clearly any theories or concepts you address in your analysis. Doing so coherently, by telling your story in a way that makes sense will also be very useful. It will be the icing on the cake if you can do so concisely, and it will be the candles on the cake if you can do so creatively.
Another way to think about your paper is that a reader who never saw the film you selected and who is wholly ignorant of psychology should leave your paper knowing exactly how the film in question supported or contradicted your selected ideas. By the middle of the term I will post a sample paper on Blackboard that will illustrate what I expect to see in a good paper.
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