Final Examination

English 345, Winter, 2004

Please write a 1,000-1,200 essay on one of the following topics.

1. Choose one of the following Hollywood film genres and discuss the way they have been used to dramatize the political and/or cultural conditions America.

A. The science fiction film.

C. The domestic melodrama.

2. Choose the films we have seen of one of one of the following directors and discuss the manner in which American culture has influenced his work.

A. Alfred Hitchcock.

B. Stanley Kubrick.

C. Martin Scorsese.

Feel free to include films not on the syllabus if you wish, but you must discuss the required films.

All exams are due no later than 12:00 PM on Friday, January 23, 2004.

If you have any questions concerning the exam, please contact me at landon@gl.umbc.edu .