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This Film3420 Visual Analysis of Out of the Past assignment is designed to test your ability to describe and interpret film narrative. You will be shown a scene from the film, Out of the Past (1947). Your task will be to give a description of the scene by breaking it down into its component parts, and then to speculate on its possible meanings.

The clip entitled, Out of the Past, can be found at this location on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcIVxOVxTs

The assignment asks you to consider the scene in isolation from the rest of the film. You may watch the entire film if you wish, but you will be graded on the precision with which you are able to describe the sequence and the quality of your ideas about its possible meanings.

Your task, then, is twofold:

1. to describe what you see as clearly as possible (you do not need to use filmic terms); and
2. to explain what it might mean (literally, thematically and symbolically).

You should write the assignment in essay form, but should think of it as having two parts. The first part of the assignment involves a shot-by-shot breakdown of the scene. The second part asks you to provide several possible interpretations of the meaning of the scene. A topic statement is required. A thesis statement is not.

Required Textbooks and Other Readings

1. Rafter, Nicole. Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society. (Second Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
2. Silver, Alain and Ursini, James. Gangster Film Reader. Pompton Plains, NJ: Limelight Editions, 2007.

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