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Discuss, in an 1½ page essay,
Richard Serra’s 1976 film Railroad Turnbridge as an abstract
experimental film, and the manner in which Serra uses slowly changing pictorial
qualities of line, shape, tonalities, and movement.             (30 marks)
SECTION B
Contemporary
Auteurs &
Queer Cinema                                            (60 marks)
Question
3
In
“Off with Hollywood’s Head: Sofia Coppola as Feminine Auteur” (2010), Todd
Kennedy argues that Sofia Coppola’s status as a contemporary auteur stems from
a notable ‘feminine aesthetic’ across all of her films. Additionally, in class,
we explored Coppola’s work in relation to queer cinema.
Drawing on pertinent examples
from the film Lost in Translation (2003), discuss:
·        
five characteristics
of Coppola’s ‘feminine aesthetic’ as a contemporary auteur;
·        
the five elements of
queer cinema as they relate to auteur theory, characterisation and the notion
of ‘camp’.
Your response should be 4 pages in length (approximately 1800 words).
Please reference all sources used.