Written for my MA Government, Politics and Journalism module in 2008. In this essay I will set out to define a constitution, to what extent there already is a constitution in Britain, why it hasn’t be consolidated in one written document and the pros and cons of having a constitution. ‘’A constitution is a [...]
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Essay written in 2007 for a university film class. Filmography to be added. In the films of Alfred Hitchcock memory and amnesia often play an important part in the narrative and enable the plot to unfold. Memory and the loss of it are used as narrative tools by Hitchcock, for example in films such as [...]
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Written 2006. In an increasingly globalised society, hybridity is the norm rather than the exception. Discuss this idea through examining any two texts studied on the course. In order to answer the question one must first understand the concept of ‘hybridity’. The Oxford English dictionary defines the word ‘hybrid’ as; ‘1. The offspring [...]
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Film exam question, 2006. Do you agree that in Hitchcock’s films women ‘are inevitably made into passive objects of male voyeuristic and sadistic impulses?’ In 1975 the essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative cinema’ was published by psychoanalytical feminist theorist Laura Mulvey. In the essay Mulvey argued that a person watching a screen would [...]
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Written in 2006 for a writing class, a short biography of my favourite author. Roald Dahl became my favourite author as a child as I very quickly became affiliated with his varying works. I had read his stories in school and my parents had bought me some of his classics to read at home. Dahl [...]
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Written 2005 about screenwriting techniques With regard to the text, The Tools of Screenwriting, what techniques must the screenwriter employ to create a compelling, successful screenplay? Tips: refer to the range of techniques available, address the question of what creates successful drama. Refer to successful films described in final chapters in additions to techniques [...]
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Essay on Wilfred Owen’s poetry ‘’The Dominant tone is not anger, nor protest, but elegiac. Suffering is ultimately aestheticized; the hideous is expressed in the language of beauty.’’ To what extent do you agree with this view of Owen’s poetry? This view of Owen’s poetry is arguably correct. Owen, like many other soldiers [...]
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