Analyze how the movie Moana represents an issue related to our unit focus. Draw on ted talk “How Movies Teach Manhood” by Strokes to craft an initial lens that helps you make an insightful claim about the film’s representation of this issue. Then, extend or complicate your claim by bringing a lens from “How Frozen Took Over the World” by Konnikova essay into conversation with your initial lens. Your overall goal is to show us that there is more to see in the film, especially in relation to the issue you have chosen to consider, because of the lenses you have brought in to examine it.
Strategies:
think about scenes that seem rich with significance in relation to our unit. What interesting question or problem do they help the film to raise? Remember: an issue worth analyzing in this essay is most likely one that viewers might see or interpret in more than one way.
Use Tools for Visual Analysis and The Method on your scenes to make observations about specific, concrete details. Apply 10 on 1 to the evidence you consider in order to say more about less.
In your analysis, be sure to make the implicit explicit. Ask, What do these cinematic details convey? What can I tell my reader so that they can see what I see?
The lens you create from your second reading can do many things for your essay. How might it further develop, extend, or even complicate the claim you are making to your reader?