Examine the issue of representation

Examine the issue of representation

Assignment Aims:

1. Examine the issue of representation

2. Consider ethical issues within the work of specific makeup effects practitioners

3. Examine the relationships between films and their cultural context/s

4. Demonstrate evidence of advanced research skills

Assignment Outline:

Essay (50%): Representation. For this assessment, students will produce an essay of 2500 words in length. This essay will focus on the issue of representation. Demonstrating evidence of research using authoritative sources (books and journals), students should focus on the representation of either: (1) gender, (2), age, (3) ethnicity, (4) disability or (5) sexuality.

Students should consider how this issue is represented through the use of special effects makeup in two films, providing a comparative analysis of these two pictures.

One of the films should be chosen from the list below; the student may have free choice in selecting the second film for analysis.

Students should consider how the representation of their chosen issues within these films has been responded to by the film’s audiences, and to this end students may consider gathering some relevant primary research (for example, interviews, questionnaires or focus groups).

One of the films must be chosen from the list below.

The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980), Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975), Priscilla’ Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994), The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992), All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, 1999), The Man Without a Face (Mel Gibson, 1993), Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982), Aliens (James Cameron, 1986), Bamboozled (Spike Lee, 2000) Coming To America (John Landis, 1988) American History X (Tony Kaye, 1998) Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) Sin City (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller, 2005) The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski, 2013) Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer & the Wachowskis, 2012) Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970) Young Guns II (Geoff Murphy, 1990)

Module Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of philosophical and cultural dimensions within the creative industries and the impact that these have on the special effects practitioner.

2. Evaluate the impact of global contextual issues affecting design and production for the special effects industry Work Required for Assessment Essay (2500 words).

The submitted work should be word-processed, double-line spaced and use a sensible font (12pt size).