Paper #3: Entering a Conversation about Ethics and Film Violence 

 

Assignment: Use at least two published reviews of the same film to help you answer the question, what does it look like to take an ethical position on the use of violence in films? To do this assignment well, summarize how at least two professional film critics view the violence shown in the same film: what violence, if any, does each critic consider reasonable and responsible to include? How do you know? Do the critics make the same points and use the same tone? Next, explain how their opinions differ. Then, based on those opinions, clarify your own perspective on this topic. 

 

For further guidance, review Chapter 12, âAnalyzing and Synthesizing Ideas,â from Allyn & Bacon, taking special note of how summary, analysis, and synthesis differ. You should choose a film to focus on, though it need not be famously violent. Consider the following possibility

 

• 12 Years a Slave

 

To find published film reviews, click on the âexternal reviewersâ link on imdb.com or visit rottentomatoes.com. You should print the published reviews that you analyze and attach them to your final draft. 

 

In your paper, you must follow MLA or APA conventions to cite the film and the published reviews that you summarize, paraphrase, and/or quote. Also, you must include one image, which may be a photograph of the film during production or the like. For guidance on citing an image (called a figure), see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/14/ for MLA conventions and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/20/ for APA conventions.

 

Your audience consists of people who have not given much thought to the choices that filmmakers make when dealing with violent content. Enlighten them. 

 

Ethics: For a concise introduction to ethics from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, see 

https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/what-is-ethics/

 

Sections That Can Help You Prepare for This Assignment: This paper arises from Chapter 12, âAnalyzing and Synthesizing Ideas,â but reviewing the following may also help:

 

• Summary writing from Ch. 5
• Transitions (special attention to) from Ch. 17
• In-text citations (basics of) from Ch. 22
• Prewriting strategies (maybe the dialectic conversation especially) from Ch. 2
• Revision practices from Ch. 16

 

1200-1500 words

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