*Write an essay of 2500 words (plus or minus %10) in answer to one of the following questions:
1. Discuss how film can be related to discourses of nationhood and national identity. Your essay should include close reference to any two of the films you have studied on the module.
2. Analyse the formal and stylistic features of any one or two films you have studied on the module, with particular reference to their difference from classical Hollywood cinema.
3. Choose a film you studied on the module and discuss how it translates its political message into an international film language for a global (or Western) audience.
4. How can postcolonial theory help our understanding of the contemporary films and film cultures of the Global South?
5. Discuss the ways in which the tensions between tradition versus modernity are depicted in Dangal.
6. Explore how City of God responds to the film stereotypes constructed in the New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s.
7. How is womanhood depicted in The Day I Became a Woman? Analyse the film within the context of Iranian national cinema.
8. Discuss the importance of local film stars in the dissemination of national productions. Your essay should include close reference to one or two of the films you have studied on the module.
9. Compare the national and international reception of one or two of the films that you have studied on the module.
10. Analyse how a particular historical event or political conflict has been depicted in one of the films that you have studied on the module. Your answer should include the discussion of both the historical context of the film and its formal and narrative strategies.
