Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the discussion of genre in Chapter 3 of Film: From Watching to Seeing. This assignment is your opportunity to demonstrate understanding of one selected genre. To do that, you will watch a full feature-length film from that genre.
Choose film is Groundhog Day 1993.
Note: You should watch your chosen film twice—once to ensure that you have grasped the storytelling and once to take more specific notes on aspects of the film you wish to discuss.
Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how your chosen feature-length film both aligns with and expands upon your chosen genre.
In your paper,
• Explain genre theory and, using Chapter 3 of the text as a reference, describe the conventions and attributes of the genre you have selected.
• Identify a feature-length film that fits your selected genre and briefly summarize the movie. As you develop this summary, remember the differences between a film’s story and a film’s plot, and be sure to highlight specific genre elements.
• Interpret at least two genre conventions exhibited in your chosen feature-length film that help classify it in the selected genre. Be sure to provide a specific example of each convention (e.g., a particular scene or plot component).
• Provide an example of a third convention from your chosen feature-length film and explain how this convention expands the boundaries of the specified genre.
The Genre and Genre Theory paper
• Must be 900 to 1200 words in length and formatted according to APA style
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title of Your Essay (in bold)
o Your First and Last Name
o University of Arizona Global Campus
o Course Code: Name of Course (e.g., ENG 225: Introduction to Film)
o Instructor’s name
o Due Date
• Must utilize academic voice.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
• Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style.
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