You are to write an 800 word (min) research paper about Chaplin's Gold Rush American silent film of your choosing. While you will have plenty of latitude to produce a paper that you find interesting, I ask that it be related to the themes addressed so far. You should tell me why this film is important in its own time as well as ours, and I would like you to concentrate as much on the visual aspects of the film as the narrative (i.e. move beyond the “it’s about the civil war, and that war had the following consequences, or Chaplin’s films address Marxist themes…)

You are to write an 800 word (min) research paper about Chaplin's Gold Rush American silent film of your choosing. While you will have plenty of latitude to produce a paper that you find interesting, I ask that it be related to the themes addressed so far. You should tell me why this film is important in its own time as well as ours, and I would like you to concentrate as much on the visual aspects of the film as the narrative (i.e. move beyond the “it’s about the civil war, and that war had the following consequences, or Chaplin’s films address Marxist themes…)