Moonlight
This is the name of the main character in Moonlight, who is portrayed at three different ages by three different actors.
Who is Chiron?
The annotated bibliography must contain between this minimum and maximum number of credible sources.
What is 6 to 10 sources?
This director, known for Pulp Fiction (1994), frequently uses postmodern techniques like non-linear storytelling, self-aware dialogue, and pastiche.
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
A recurring motif in Moonlight, occurs during a scene where Juan teaches Chiron to do this.
What is 'swim'?
The first part of the project requires students to create this type of short, persuasive multimodal presentation.
What is a proposal video?
This term describes when LGBTQ+ characters are subtly included in films but their identities are never explicitly confirmed.
What is queer coding?
This character, played by Janelle Monáe, is Juan’s girlfriend and acts as a mother figure to the protagonist.
Who is Teresa?
Each annotation must be between this range of word counts.
What is 250 to 350 words?
This film genre makes fun of a specific genre by exaggerating its tropes, such as Scream (1996) for horror, it falls under this category.
What is parody or self-referential cinema?
Moonlight is set in this U.S. city, which is also where Barry Jenkins grew up.
What is Miami?
In this assignment, students must develop one of these—a focused inquiry that guides their exploration.
What is a research question?
Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, this term describes how overlapping identities (such as race, gender, and class) create unique forms of discrimination.
What is intersectionality?
When Moonlight won Best Picture at the Oscars, it became the first film with this distinction in Academy Awards history.
What is 'the first LGBTQ+ film to win Best Picture'?
The project encourages students to use this university-based system to find credible, peer-reviewed sources.
What is the university research library?
This Soviet filmmaker, known for Battleship Potemkin (1925), developed the theory of montage as a key formalist technique.
Who is Sergei Eisenstein?