Revise Your Film Analysis (Essay Two)
Your second option is to substantially revise your Film Analysis Essay (Essay Two). These revisions must go beyond merely fixing formatting, grammatical, and/or organizational issues we identified in your earlier versions. In addition to addressing those issues, you will also generate a strong thesis statement about your article and use new evidence from Capital to support your analysis.
For example, if your Film Analysis Essay (Essay 2), posited that,
“the 2013 film Snowpiercer examined Marx ideas about the role of technology in the exploitation of labor and the creation of surplus value,”
then your revised thesis might be modified so that you are making an argument for how effectively the film models these concepts, such as
“the 2013 film Snowpiercer effectively/ineffectively explores Marx ideas about the role of technology and primitive accumulation in the exploitation of labor and the creation of surplus value and a reserve army of labor.”
In this example you would be moving beyond a mere theoretical analysis and making an argument about the film’s effectiveness/ineffectiveness in portraying the concepts you originally wrote about (technology, exploitation, and surplus value) while also exploring concepts we’ve learned about more recently (primitive accumulation and the creation of a “reserve army of labor”). The new concepts will require that you find new evidence from both the film (scenes, dialogue, etc. that you didn’t analyze in your first essay) and from Capital (passages where Marx defines these concepts and offers examples).
Guidelines for Options Two
Generate a 1750 word revision of your Film Analysis (Essay 2).
Your new draft must have an argumentative thesis.
Option One requires a call to action: What do we do to address the issues you uncover in your Article Analysis?
Option Two requires an argument for the efficacy/inefficacy of the film’s portrayal of Marx’s concepts. How well does the film depict these concepts? Why? What problems arise from the film’s depiction?
In addition to evidence from your earlier draft, your new thesis must be supported by at least two new pieces of evidence from the film/article and at least two new concepts from Capital (four new pieces of evidence, total).
This essay should follow MLA formatting guidelines, and include in-text citations and a Works Cited page.
