Beasts of the Southern Wild Paper

The assignment is to relate the film Beasts of the Southern Wild to any essay in my textbook, “Film Theory and Criticism” by Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. It must be relating the film to ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS/ESSAYS:

1. Eisenstein’s 5 Methods of Montage, which could be found in the uploaded file on pages 9-14

OR

2. Gunning’s “Narrative Discourse and the Narrative System”, http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/baugh/gunning.pdf

OR

3. Andre Bazin’s “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema”,
http://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter13/8/Bazin_What_is_Cinema.pdf

Any of these three topics/essays can be found in the textbook Film Theory and Criticism” by Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen… or in the links above/files uploaded.

Again, the essay must be 3 pages long and only relate the movie “Beasts of the Southern Wild” to ONE of the three choices I listed, NOT ALL THREE.