Describe and analyze what your life is like and how you experience film and the film industry.

In addition to the content and persuasiveness of the argument, organizational clarity and writing mechanics will be considered, so take your time to construct your essay. Be sure to cite passages and quotes from the readings using simple parenthetical citation: (Author’s last name, page number) like (Carey, 206).

Suppose it’s 1928 and you are an Italian immigrant from agricultural Sicily, recently moved to Chicago. Drawing on the readings from Gunning, Czitrom, Fowles, and/or others, and screening of Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936; but Chaplin is already a movie star by the 1920s), describe and analyze what your life is like and how you experience film and the film industry.