Assignments: Batch Two: Assignment Sixteen

Bill Nichols & Susan J Lederman write that 'virtually every... account of the perception of movement in film texts [is] wrong. The impression of movement is not due to persistence of vision. The very persistence with which this "explanation" has been recited says more about the hermetic and impressionistic world of some film scholarship than it does about the actual mechanisms involved'. Offer a critical exploration of this issue.

Guidance

For general guidance about what is expected in your essays for this module, see the general criteria.

What Key Features Do I Look For?

  • Familiarity with relevant texts
  • Evidence - the stronger the better
  • Argument - coherent and balanced
  • Theoretical discussion - relation to relevant theories
  • Understanding of relevant concepts
  • Reflexivity - reflections on methodology
  • Examples - insightfully analysed
  • Style - readability and effective presentation

Please remember to avoid footnotes and to include an alphabetical list of 'References' which have been cited in the text (not a Bibliography of anything you have read for the essay). This list should include author's names, date, book titles (in italics), place of publication and publisher. Within the text always cite author's surname, date and page number. Double-space your text and number your pages. For more detailed notes on writing essays in this department, click here.

Advice for this particular assignment: This title may particularly appeal to some film students. Note that it emphasises the active processes of cognition in visual perception. Do not rely on general textbooks. Favour psychologically-oriented specialist texts. Note also that this is an assignment for which the inclusion of relevant pictorial illustrations is likely to be an advantage.

Some suggested reading

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