You will make an essay that focuses on a body of work by a specific filmmaker or writer, analyzing and
interpreting that body of work in the context of a critical or scholarly conversation about that work.
Your fifth progression essay will require you to choose and analyze at least 4 or more works by a single
maker (or, in the case of the Maysles, makers) from the list below. The idea is to come up with an
interesting, persuasive interpretation of these multiple works that somehow allows for you to figure out an
overall argument about the figure(s) you’ve chosen: what their work means, how it works, and why it
matters (what its contexts are)
Choose one of the following to focus on, for Progression 5:
Maxine Hong Kingston (memoir/essay)
Alice Munro (stories)
The Maysles Brothers (documentaries)
Martin Scorsese (narrative film)
Bong Joon-Ho (narrative film)
Liz Garbus (documentaries)
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