Analyzing Film

Analyzing Narrative Films

• How to analyze a film (Lumen)

• Writing Center (University at North Carolina)

• Owl Purdue: Writing about Film

• How to analyze a movie (San Diego International Film Festival)

Analyzing Anime

• https://reelrundown.com/animation/5-Hallmarks-of-Good-Storytelling-in-Anime

• https://geekgals.co/2020/04/16/guide-for-rating-anime/

Analyzing Documentaries

• https://sites.middlebury.edu/amst0262a/documentary-film-analysis/

• Note taking template

• Questions for analyzing technique

• International Documentary Association

Researching about Film: Check out these sources

• Online Film Critics Society (film & television reviews/criticism)

• Learn more about literary theory and criticism at Purdue OWL

• Google Scholar (proceed with care - you will find wonderful articles, but the paywalls will break your heart; Ms. Van Winkle may be able to find articles though, so check with her)

• Gale Literature

• ProQuest Ebooks

• Academic OneFile

• EBSCO eBooks

• JSTOR (currently offering 100 free articles per month to all students)

• Important! When conducting research from off-campus, you’ll need passwords for our subscriptions. Find login information here.

Also, please review different elements for a textual analysis of a non-literary text at https://www.mrsmacfarland.com/dp-curriculum/non-literary-analysis. Consider what rhetorical strategies are used in the development of the film to develop the argument or main message.

Podcasts

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp2kscopex92x2/chapter/how-to-analyze-a-podcast/

https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/c.php?g=711516&p=5070995

https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/c.php?g=711516&p=5071253

http://www.byronhawk.com/460-sound/Podcast-Analysis-Assignment.pdf

Video Games

https://ndla.no/en/subject:39/topic:3d30d5a0-724f-4afd-9b10-bfce97dc5d14/resource:8bf93a73-959b-4e32-8689-f43e7b1a7db8?filters=urn:filter:4ad7fe49-b14a-4caf-8e19-ad402d1e2ce6

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1165&context=tor

https://journals.sfu.ca/loading/index.php/loading/article/download/1/1

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24484129?seq=1