Your final paper requires you to use the same methods of analysis you used in the midterm paper, but applied to a different movie: In a Mood for Love (Week 12). You have thus already have done some preliminary study and research for it. 

Write an analysis of In a Mood for Love using one ore more of the three methods of analysis listed below:

Follow these instructions carefully. Much of your grade depends on it!

 1) Use of Kinds of Montage — as identified and described by Sergei Einseinstein. This method is described in pages 37-38 of Cultural Criticism. I have also posted two videos with helpful, illustrative examples in Week 3. 

2) Use of Symbols, Indexes, and Icons (i.e., of types of signs according to the Peircean trichotomy of signs). These different typos of sings are described in pages 73-79 of Cultural Criticism. The videos posted in Week 2 and Week 4 are particularly helpful. 

3) Use of Metaphor and Metonymy — These figures are described in pages 86-89 of Cultural Criticism. Study those pages carefully. I have placed some examples of metonymy in your Moodle site: see the clips Pink Slippers —Selected clips from In a Mood for Love. The pink slippers, for instance, are a metonymy for Sue by contiguity (they are contiguous to her feet when she uses them) and by association with her. You may refer to the examples in the clips, but must identify new ones. There are many other examples of the use of metaphor and metonymy in the film. Find some original ones. In addition, we discussed the use of metaphor and metonymy in "The use of Music and Metaphor and Metonymy in :Embrace of the Serpent". You should also refer to those examples to understand how the two figures differ.

–Give your paper an original and creative title—something that condenses the idea of your semiotic analysis and attracts the attention of your reader. 

—All direct quotations must be documented and use the MLA style or a comparable style.

—Length: 4 to 5 pages, double space