Posted: September 16th, 2017

Critical essay on Roman Polanski’s film Chinatown

Critical essay on Roman Polanski’s film Chinatown

Read Chapts.1, 2, and 3 in A Short Guide to writing about film, my notes on “Neo-Noir Film and the Search for Self/Identity: Some Thoughts from Essays by Jerold J. Abrams, Mark T. Conrad, and Jean-Francois Lyotard,” “Some Characteristics of Classic Film Noir and Neo-Noir Film,” and “Writing a Critical Essay” in Course Documents, as well as Richard Gilmore’s essay, “The Dark Sublimity of Chinatown,” on pp. 119-136, and Jeanne Schuler and Patrick Murray’s essay “’Anything Is Possible Here’: Capitalism, Neo-Noir, and Chinatown,” pp. 167-181, in Philosophy; then watch Roman Polanski’s film Chinatown (1974), and write a 2-3 page Critical Essay (double-spaced) in which you identify at least three thematic and three stylistic elements (cinematic techniques) of neo-noir film being used to convey one main narrative and subsequent counternarratives in the film.