Writing Assignment

The Writing Assignment on William Wyler’s film.

N.B.: You can watch this film again by renting and streaming it on amazon.com for $2.99. Please type into the amazon.com search engine: William Wyler, The Letter and you can stream the video on their website.

Directions and Guidelines

This writing assignment asks you to write a short paper analyzing William Wyler’s film, The Letter (1940) by answering ONE of the following sets of prompt questions below. In addition, please draw upon materials from class lectures and in-class discussion. For this assignment, you must write a three-page (maximum four-page) essay answering of the prompt questions below. The assignment asks you to analyze Hollywood representations of the “Others” in Wyler’s film. Your essay should be neatly typed and doubled spaced (with one-inch margins, and be sure to number your pages). More important, please structure your essay around a thesis statement, and organize your visual analysis and discussion of two specific scenes from the film into a cohesive argument.