Essays by Sarah Walker https://padlet.com/SelkieW/1dnjmvg2487p44yl Made with a wish on a star en-us 2021-01-20 10:42:02 UTC 2021-02-18 14:20:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f49b.png Cutting Down SelkieW https://padlet.com/SelkieW/1dnjmvg2487p44yl/wish/1215141071 In a shorter essay the background information on the primary text could be briefer, information could be condensed into one paragraph, drawing attention to the title and argument with less quotes and briefer explanations. It would be necessary to pick out only crucial points.
The background about the film could be cut down to one or two brief sentences which describe the premise of the film and relevant details that will be discussed further within the text, i.e "transposing conventions and motifs of the Western"]]> 2021-02-18 13:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/SelkieW/1dnjmvg2487p44yl/wish/1215141071 wiu32nnrez1 https://padlet.com/SelkieW/1dnjmvg2487p44yl/wish/1215141957
  • A good introduction as it includes a quote which adds academic weight to the upcoming essay (Patrick McGee)
  • Unpicks McGee’s quote and presents why this is relevant and how this will set up the wider argument of what’s being discussed. "McGee exhibits a tendency shared by many of today’s film scholars to observe hybridity, along with intertextuality"
  • Sets us up for what to expect within the upcoming essay:
    • 1. "utilizes its post-apocalyptic premise as a metaphor expressive of specifically twenty-first century cultural anxieties relating to the possibility of the end of global civilisation"
    2.      "Fury Road re-envisions the Western [...] by promoting a gendered transformation of the patriarchal-capitalist social relations that produce violence"

    ]]>     2021-02-18 13:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/SelkieW/1dnjmvg2487p44yl/wish/1215141957     How does the essay inform the reader of what's to come? SelkieW https://padlet.com/SelkieW/1dnjmvg2487p44yl/wish/1215175105 The introduction clearly outlines and introduces the points to be explored in each area of the essay in the order that they are to be presented. This is useful for those looking for particular pieces of information; scanning etc.]]> 2021-02-18 13:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/SelkieW/1dnjmvg2487p44yl/wish/1215175105 wiu32nnrez1 https://padlet.com/SelkieW/1dnjmvg2487p44yl/wish/1215317551 Strong ending sentence - "When all is said and done, Fury Road suggests the world does not need to be ‘killed’; it can instead be reborn, looking forward to a future that need not necessarily ‘belong to the mad’."
    Stays with you and actively sums up the rest of the essay. Instead of directly repeating what has been spoken in the introduction the points are reworded which demonstrates, in the body of the essay, these discussion points have been unpicked and evaluated. ]]>     2021-02-18 14:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/SelkieW/1dnjmvg2487p44yl/wish/1215317551