MAR 460 - Shakespeare on Screen
Research Essay:
Using three (3) filmed versions of a play studied in the course OR three Shakespeare adaptations by a single director, analyze the way in which the cinematic representation of a theme, motif, character, or key scene has changed over time. The play(s) and two scholarly sources should be used as secondary sources, while the film versions will provide the primary analytical texts. You should use your découpage skills in presenting evidence from the films.
Library Assignment:
1. Using the Research Rules to Live By page (go to "Tutorials & Guides"), find all the bibliographies or indexes we have in the library on movies/cinema.
- How many are in English?____________
- How many are online? ____________
- What was your best search strategy?
- Why would finding a bibliography be in your best interest?
2. Do a search for Hitchcock in FIAF, in the MLA and in Academic Search Premier. (Find these under "Article and Database Searching")
- What are the differences?
- What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of each database?
3. Search for books about the director John Ford in our Library Catalog and in Worldcat ("Article & Database Searching"). What is the difference?
- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the two databases?
- When would Worldcat be a useful resource?
4. Use the Media Arts Subject Guide (under "Subject Guides") to find whatever primary source documents you can for a paper on A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935).
- What did you find? Where?
5. Using the Library Catalog, do your best to bring up a list of 1) all the Horror films in our collection, 2) all the feature films based on Shakespeare’s work, and 3) all the films on DVD that we own.
- What did you find?
- Are you confident you found them all for each category? Why? Why not? Discuss…
6. Use the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online, to find bibliographies of work on Shakespeare.
- How many are there? ___________
- How many films are listed in this online database? ____________
7. Use the Library Catalog to identify the basic call number area for books about Lawrence Olivier.
- Basic Call Number Range is: ________________.
- Go to this call number range (in the Library) and browse through the books. Find an interesting one that has something to do with his career in film & write down the citation information in MLA format.
- Now write down two good sources (books or articles) listed in the bibliography (also in MLA format).
- Check the Libary Catalog to see if the library owns these books/articles. Do we?