Documenting Film and Literature

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Documenting Film and Literature

• Kimberly M. Radek

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Internal CitationsQuoting from Film

• When quoting from films in your paper
• Mention the films director (conventional author)
  in sentence OR include films title in
  parentheses
• For short quotations, defined as one characters
  speech only, mention characters name for
  integrating
• For extended exchanges of dialogue, set aside
  that quotation.
• Indent the characters' names, in all capital
  letters, each two tab spaces, an inch.
• Follow that name with a period and begin to quote
  the dialogue. For any remaining dialogue of the
  characters' indent an additional three spaces or
  a quarter inch.

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Examples from Film

• Shorter Quotation
• Ron sheepishly says, Im Ron Weasley (Harry
• Potter and the Sorcerers Stone).
• Longer Quotation
• When Ron and Harry initially meet Hermione they
  are not very impressed, even though she
  successfully uses magic to fix Harrys
  eyeglasses
• RON. Whatever house Im in, I hope shes not in
  it . . . Stupid spellGeorge gave it to me, bet
  he knew it was a dud.
• HARRY. What house are your brothers in? Eat your
  breakfast. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerers
  Stone)

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External Citation The Work Cited

• A film entry usually begins with the title and
  includes the film director, the distributor, and
  the year of release. Other pertinent information
  may be included between the title and the
  director.
• Its a Wonderful Life. Dir. Frank Capra.
  Perf. James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel
  Barrymore. RKP, 1946.

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Work Cited, special

• If you are citing the contribution of a
  particular person with the film, then begin with
  that persons name.
• Columbus, Chris, dir. Harry Potter and the
  Sorcerers Stone. Warner Brothers, 2001. Warner
  Home Video. DVD Release Date May 28, 2002

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Structure of Essay 4

• By point or by medium
• By point, mention one point of comparison, then
  explain and prove (through quoting) how it is the
  one text, following that up with the proof and
  explanation from the other text
• By medium, mention all the points of comparison
  from the first text with explanations and proof
  before covering them all again with explanations
  and proof from the other text

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Thesis for Paper 4

• Titles and author and director
• Points of comparison
• Significance of the comparison

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Evaluate the Following Theses

• There are many differences between the book and
  the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
  by J.K. Rowling, mostly taking place at Hogwarts
  School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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• In the book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers
  Stone, there are many magical differenced in the
  movie, such as wands, potions, and leg lock
  curses.

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• In the movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers
  Stone, based on the novel by J. k. Rowling,
  several characters are portrayed differently than
  they are in the book, resulting in an lesser
  ability to capture the viewers interests as the
  book has.

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• There are significant differences between the
  movie and the book of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter
  and the Sorcerers Stone that cause Harry, Ron,
  and Hermione to have an easier time at Hogwarts
  as they have fewer obstacles in their way of
  rule-breaking.

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Internal CitationsQuoting from Literature

• When quoting from prose literary texts in your
  paper
• Mention authors name
• In sentence or parentheses
• List page number in parentheses
• Integrate the quotation
• In the paragraph, if four lines or less in length
• By setting it aside within the paragraph,
  double-indenting, if it goes over four typed
  lines (from left to right margin)

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Short Citations

• Cite fiction by the page number directly after
  the quoted material.
• If identifying the author in the sentence, then
  give only page number(s) in the parentheses after
  the quotation marks.
• The character of Ruth, in Gloria Naylor's Linden
  Hills demonstrates great loyalty to her husband,
  Norman, when she stays with him, even though she
  becomes "past bone-tired, of hurting from being
  crushed between her hatred and love" (35) for
  him.
• If not including the authors name, then last
  name and page number, separated by a space, go in
  the parentheses.
• Ruth demonstrates great loyalty to her husband,
  Norman, when she stays with him, even though she
  becomes "past bone-tired, of hurting from being
  crushed between her hatred and love" (Naylor 35)
  for him.

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Examples from the Book

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  Student 2
• This pattern of rudeness and abuse is
• established earlier in the book when it is made
• apparent that Hermione Granger will hurt
• anyone, even a teacher
• Hermione had fought her way across to
  the
• stand where Snape stood, and was now
• racing along the row behind him she
• didnt even stop to say sorry as she
• knocked Professor Quirrel headfirst
  into
• the row in front. Reaching Snape, she
• crouched down, pulled out her wand,
  and
• whispered a few well-chosen words.
• Bright blue flames shot from her wand
• onto the hem of Snapes robes. (
  Rowling
• 191)
• Obviously, Hermione has no sense of politeness,
• as her treatment of Quirrel shows, and no sense

• Name
• Teacher
• Class
• Date Paper 5 The Evil Character
• In Harry Potter and the Sorcerers
• Stone by J, K. Rowling,one characherter,
• Hermione Granger is portrayed as a sweet
• Muggle child, but she really cloaks a hidden
• layer of evil. In fact, she repeatedly is rude
  to
• others, even using complicated spells against
• others who cannot defend themselves. For
• example, Hermione uses one against Neville
• near the end of the book. She is aware of the
• harm she could cause him, as she admits,
• Neville, . . . Im really, really sorry about
• this (Rowling 273).

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Long Citations
Name 3 Naylor describes
Norman and his mental illness in a particularly
poignant passage Looking at
him, it was difficult to imagine that this
square-jawed man with the gentle,
sloping lips was the same one who every
other spring went up and down Wayne Avenue,
screaming and tearing at his face and
hair with his fingernails, trying to scrape off
the pinks. He resorted to his teeth
and bare nails only after everything
else had failedjagged sections of plates and
glasses, wire hangers, curtain rods,
splinters of wood once part of a dresser,
a coffee table, or Ruth's grandmother's
antique music box. Up and down Wayne
Avenuein a frantic search for untried edges and
textures to dig into his skinuntil
he was taken away, arms forced and
laced to his side, and sent into a twilight that
dimmed the shades of his nightmare.
(34) The jagged sections of plates and
glasses and the splinters of wood (34) work
very well symbolically to represent a person
deteriorating under pressureboth external and
internal.

• A direct quotation more than four lines (on the
  paper) should be set off from the text by
  indenting two tab spaces or an inch.
• Double space these set off quotations and do not
  enclose them in quotation marks.

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Work Cited

• Dont forget to cite the novel, per the
  Stylebooks explanation

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Other MLA Formatting Concerns

• Use 1 margins
• Header should be placed to print at ½
• Header contains your last name and page number at
  right margin
• Left justified
• 12 point, Times New Roman font
• Double-space throughout