Your take-home question is the following:
For better or for worse, violence and conflict have been two predominant themes in late 20th-early 21st century American cinema. What specific historical factors do you think may have impacted these themes, and why? How did the mise-en-scene of the films we examined change specifically as a result?Like at the midterm, this is open book and open notes, and should be typed. Limit your writing to 2 hours (although your proofreading - so that you don't lose points - and correcting can go over this time limit, if you need to!) This essay will be due at the in-class portion of the final on Monday, May 7th at 6 pm.
The in-class will be on the question of adaptation and The Da Vinci Code.
BTW... another curious fact I forgot to mention last Wednesday...
"Another dubious and much-contested fact is Dan Brown’s description of the entrance to the Louvre itself. Brown claims that the controversial Louvre pyramid – completed in 1989– is made up of exactly 666 panes of glass. Various books deny this, although they themselves seem unable to agree on the exact number – just that it isn’t 666! The home page of the company who provide the lights for the pyramid states that there are 675 glass rhombus shapes and 118 triangles, but glassonweb – a website for all your glass needs – goes for 603 rhombus shapes and 70 triangular ones. So, no real help there – and we can only wonder just where Brown got his number from." (from The Fortean Times)
