1. Download OR print the Black Panther review so you can highlight and write in the margins. (You can print the review and upload a picture of your annotations.)
2. Highlight and write in the margins. (Note: You need to make notes. If you just highlight, you won’t receive credit for this assignment.)

What to highlight and write in the margins

• Make a color-coded key, choosing one color for each of the three things:

1. 1. Organization and structure: Highlight and annotate where the writer makes claims and arguments, gives summary, gives background info, etc.
      • What various claims does this reviewer make about the film? Highlight them and make a note in the margin. (For example, one claim might be: “Part of the movie’s pleasure and its ethos — which wends through its visuals — is how it dispenses with familiar either/or divides …”)
      • Where does this reviewer summarize the movie’s plot, characters, setting and conflict so we have context for understanding her opinions?
   2. Support and evidence: Highlight and annotate where the writer supports her claims (perhaps by using description, scenes, quotations, examples, etc.)
      • What evidence or details does she supply to support those claims? What aspects of filmmaking does she take into account?
   3. Syntax and style
      • Highlight and annotate any “Mic drop lines” or lines that a reader just can’t ignore because the style is so good!
      • Where is the writing beautiful? What lines did you admire?

• Remember: use “comments” (or write in the margins) to describe what each highlighted area is doing. 

the second part is

Does the Black Panther review give the broader picture? (discussion) – Discussion Group 2Catherine Sayre (She/Her)From 2021SU-ENGL-120-8949

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Instructions

Return to NYT critic Jon Pareles’s framing of the critic’s job. Reread his essay, then think about this particular passage below:

The best criticism merges the details of the individual experience — the close-up — with a much broader picture of what the experience means. It’s not just about that concert or art exhibit. It’s about how to listen or how to look. It’s about changing the perception your readers will bring to the next experience because your ideas awakened theirs.”

Does the review of Black Panther do that? How? What lines accomplish that especially well for you?

(That means she does more than ust give her opinion. She changes the way you see the film.)

the third part is how to analyzing a movie review

Playing the Analysis Game

“Everything we see could be otherwise.”

– Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein

Analysis is a thinking strategy in which the thinker observes the whole, breaks the whole down into parts, and then examines the connections of the parts to one another and to the whole. If you are asked to analyze something (for example, write an analysis paper), the analysis game helps you find something new, interesting, or enlightening to say. The game urges you to defamiliarize the object you are analyzing—to see it new by imagining how key parts might have been something else. You can then ask why the part is the way it is.

Steps in the Analysis Game

• STEP 1: DESCRIBE. Observe your “text” carefully and then describe it for someone else. Look at the whole “text”; then look at each part. Notice everything down to the smallest details. Don’t judge. Don’t interpret. Your goal at this stage is to write a description of the text for someone who hasn’t read/seen/listened to it.
• STEP 2: QUESTION. Generate as many questions as you can about the “text.” Don’t stop to answer your questions or judge your them! Try to generate as many questions you can about the text and what you’ve noticed.
• STEP 3: CHOOSE ONE OR TWO QUESTIONS. Choose one or two key questions that could serve as the starting point of your analysis. What questions do you think would make an interesting analysis paper? Posing a question is the heart of your own knowledge-making process.
• STEP 4: FREEWRITE FOR 10-15 MINUTES (over 1 page). Use freewriting to explore possible answers to your question. Freewriting (Links to an external site.), sometimes called nonstop writing, means to write without stopping. To freewrite, put your pen to paper (or sit at your computer and maybe turn off the monitor so you can’t see what you’re writing) and write rapidly, nonstop, for ten to fifteen minutes.
• DON’T WORRY. This writing is informal, with the emphasis on your ideas and NOT on making your writing grammatically or stylistically polished, so don’t worry about spelling or grammar! The purpose is to deepen your thinking.