Watch a Full-length film or documentary about jazz. Download the Jazz Movies and Documentaries document for a list of movies, or you may choose another film with the instructor’s approval. You can find your film from a service like Netflix, or from a local library. Is the film a documentary or a dramatic film based on historical events? Does the soundtrack use original recordings, or were new recording created for the soundtrack? Who are the director, the producer, and the main actors in the film? Were any jazz musicians or scholars consulted in the making of the film? Your paper should be around four pages long, which is about 1000 words. Your bibliography should be in MLA format, and should include the film that you watched. Please do not use YouTube as a source for your paper. Citations for films are different than they for books. Here is an example of a citation for a film: Ed Wood. Dir. Tim Burton. Perf. Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette. Touchstone, 1994. DVD. To make it easier on yourself, you might want to try an MLA citation generator. You just fill in the info, and the generator creates a bibliographic citation for you! Originality Check is enabled for this assignment. It automatically checks the internet for text that has been cut and pasted from other sources. Papers with significant amounts of copied material will lose significant points. Anything that is cut and pasted into your paper should be clearly identified as a direct quote. To receive full credit: The paper should be turned in by the due date. The paper should meet or exceed the minimum word count requirement, and should fully address all topics listed in the directions. The paper should meet MLA format guidelines. The paper should have MLA format in-text citations and a works cited list. The paper should be spell-checked and grammar-checked. The paper should be original work.
