1. Purpose: to give students experience seeing/reading a film with a critical eye, and to understanding how this medium works on the viewer.



2. Procedures:
   1. View Braveheart (1995) on Tuesday, October 7, in the Granberg Room of VanWylen Library, 7-10 PM. The film portrays characters and events in Scotland and England between 1280, and through an epilogue, 1314.
   2. Find the most scholarly source on the web which addresses the film, and then through the library on-line catalogue a review in a scholarly journal. Use these two sources and Braveheart to write your paper.
3. Content: This is still another exercise in critical thinking. Reflect on the nature of and your past experience with cinematic representations of history. How does film represent a culture and its past? In what ways are claims to truth made through cinematic images? Braveheart certainly conveys information, for example what it would have been like as a lightly-protected medieval foot soldier to face a charge of armored knights. But how accurate is the portrayal of the era or of the individuals (especially William Wallace), and of medieval events or developments?

Aim for a paper of 2-3 pages, which is due Friday, October 10.