General Guidelines: Responses should be typed, double-spaced, maximum of 4 pages each. If you use outside sources, including lectures, MLA citations and a Works Cited are required.
Rubric: Each category of the rubric above pertains to the following criteria:
1. Content: Personal Reflections/ Critical Thinking: How well did the student adhere to the question? Were reflections innovative? Were they in line with course themes, key terminology, theoretical bases, etc.?
2. Support: Resources/Cross-references: Were additional resources used? Did the student use support effectively – as evidence, ulterior explanations, well-placed citations, amplified with personal reflections? Or, for example, did outside sources overtake the entire analysis?
3. Style: Organization/Coherence: Does the student use sophisticated transitional sentences that often develop one idea from the previous one or identify their logical relations? Does the reflection clearly guide the reader through the chain of reasoning or progression of ideas? Does the student choose words for their precise meaning and use an appropriate level of specificity? Sentence style fits paper’s audience and purpose. Sentences are clearly structured, carefully focused, not long or rambling.
5. Mechanics: Writing/MLA: Is the paper nearly free of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors? Is the MLA used correctly to allow for utmost comprehension and ease while reading?
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Test Questions (there are 2 parts to this test)
Part 1. Watch and analyze Per Anna (Andrea Zuliani, 2015). You should address the following topics in one continuous response. Feel free to also write about aspects of the film that you consider to be in line with common course themes, terms, etc.., often mentioned in lecture.
Vehicles of Meaning
What are the intended messages and how are they conveyed? What vehicles of meaning, including, but not limited to, location, signs, compositions and frames, dialogues, sound, movement and positions, etc., conveyed the messages?
Themes of the Specific to the Universal
What aspects of the short evoked connections between you and the film? Was that because of a personal connection you had or were those aspects universally relatable? How is the short connected to culture (including Italian film culture), how is it connected to the world?

Part 2. Answer ONE of the following questions. You may not select a film you have already analyzed in a previous assignment.
Nuovo cinema paradiso
1. Examine the film as a coming-of-age, bildungsfilm, as a story about progress and change, gains and losses. Can one ever go back? Does “progress always come too late” (Alfredo)?
2. What function does the role of the town fool fulfill? What purpose does he serve?