Misc. Documents
In this section of the site I've included some miscellaneous documents, which I feel show a progression in my thinking as I've developed as a film scholar. These works appear here as they were turned in (and as such, some look a little dated, others a little rough, most both) and I've tried to organize them in a logical way.
The first documents I've included were written in my first and second years at St. Olaf . When I look at them now I get a little embarrassed but I've included them for the sake of illustrating my progression. The first was written for my first year religion class and compares Edward Scissorhands to the story of Jesus of Nazareth (seriously). The second was written for the literature and film class I took during the spring of my sophmore year as a scene adapted from Heart of Darkness that could serve as an alternative to Apocalypse Now.
The Gospel of Edward Scissorhands
Heart of Darkness
The next document I've included is a paper I wrote for my American film history course on a scene from Michael Curtiz's film Casablanca. I feel my analysis is stronger (my punctuation surely is) and that by this point in my writing I've become more detail oriented.
Casablanca Scene Analysis
The final two writing samples I've included are response papers which I wrote for the world cinema class I took during the second semester of my senior year. They are responses to two national cinemas: those of Japan and Germany. By this point in my writing I had really become interested in the relationship between the film and the viewer (in this case, me), and my writing has taken a "personal essay" turn.
German Cinema
Japanese Cinema
The final document is my annotated bibliography for my paper on Godard, but I feel it represents a bibliography for my film education as a whole because it shows how I like to combine primary sources, biographical materials, and theoretical/critical commentaries. I've learned more about movies in my senior year than I have in any other year of my schooling and I feel this is due to my study of JLG.
Annotated Bibliography
