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Honor Movie Paper

For this project, you’ll be researching a horror film of your choosing

Choose film that are NOT shown in class:

(Do Not chose the film list below, chose any other horror films you watched besides these)

Paranormal Activity

Nosferatu

Frankenstein

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Ganja & Hess

The Exorcist

Psycho

Halloween,

Jennifer’s Body

Screening - It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)

Screening - Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)

Screening - Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)

Screening - Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012)

Requirements (Three parts)

For this particular assignment, you’ll produce a research report as you begin examining your topic.

This report has three sections. Please write this report as three separate sections , as explained below.

First section: Summary of the film - 300-400 words

Describe the film you’ve chosen and your interest in it. Why is it significant? What intriguing questions does it inspire about the horror genre?

Second section: Citations and summaries of at least 1 academic source and 2 primary/trade/press sources - 25-50 words each (75-150 words total, not including the citations themselves)

These should be sources you might use for your final paper. With your summaries, demonstrate you have looked over the source and that there is a reason it might be helpful for your research. (If you want to include more sources than the minimum required here, feel free.) Please properly cite the sources you include in this section. Remember there is an MLA citation guide.

Third section: Proposal - 100-200 words

Describe what questions you plan to ask with your research, and/or what argument you want to make. You’re still in the preliminary stages of your research, so it’s okay to not have a fully-formed argument or thesis! This is a place to think through your hunches, suggest possible directions for your paper, and in general just establish what you want your paper to do. As you work on this report, I encourage you to keep the final paper requirements in mind - this report is meant to jump start your work on the final paper, so make sure you’re thinking ahead to where this research is going to take you.

A good paper will:

● raise a thought-provoking question or questions

● critically engage with its topic and take a position

● consider actors, actions, location, context

● connect itself to broader issues with bigger stakes