Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Discussing and Citing "Audrie and Daisy" in your paper


For those of you interesting in responding to Yoffe's essay/conversation for Paper #2, the film Audrie and Daisy might work well as support for your views or as a naysayer to you and/or Yoffe. However, how do you 'use' a film in your paper? It's not enough simply to recount the plot or to say that it exists. You can do one of two things in your paper:

#1: Quote dialogue from the film that you find significant. For example, the Sheriff of Maryville is quoted as saying, 

"You know, unfortunately, you have a lot of people involved in this that are running around telling a lot of stories, and without pointing fingers, it serves to benefit peoples’s causes by making things up that really didn’t exist...But don’t underestimate the need for attention. Especially young girls. There’s a lot of pressure on young girls in our society to be pretty, to be liked, to be the popular one. It’s not fair, but it is how our society works." 


If I wanted to use this, I might write, "As the Sheriff of Maryville explains, "You know, unfortunately, you have a lot of people involved in this that are running around telling a lot of stories, and without pointing fingers, it serves to benefit peoples’s causes by making things up that really didn’t exist" (Shenk/Cohen). 

#2: Or, you can simply focus on a specific scene in the film which you narrate and then discuss. For example,

In a very important scene from the documentary, Audrie and Daisy, we see the police officer interrogating one of the suspects apologize for having to take the suspect's phone. He even says, "I'm afraid I'll have to take this," as if he truly regrets having to do it. While this may seem like an example of playing "good cop" to get the suspect to relax and eventually confess, throughout the interrogation, he seems never to press too hard or demand too much. The suspect, though uncomfortable, seems surprisingly relaxed and under no fear of serious imprisonment (Shenk/Cohen). 

Then, you would cite the film in your paper's Works Cited page like so:

Audrie and Daisy. Directed by Jon Shenk & Bonnie Cohen. Netflix, 2016. 

For more information about the film, check out this website as well (which you can use as a source, but you can't use it along with the film: either us it OR the film, and then find another second source).
http://jezebel.com/audrie-and-daisy-an-infuriating-and-familiar-look-at-h-1787276546

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