Criticism Paper of TV Show Westworld Season 1

The purpose of this assignment is to apply your understanding of criticism to an actual artifact. The annotated bibliography, production research, and episode notes should help you begin your analysis. They form the background research upon which you’ll base the critique of your television show.

• Choose a perspective from which to develop your critical analysis and briefly explain why you think this perspective is the best lens through which to analyze your show.

What is the relationship between cyborgs and human that can reflect in Westworld Season 1?

2. The critical analysis of your program should be the central focus of your paper. You might provide a dominant, negotiated, or oppositional reading of the television text. You should briefly explain the basic themes, characters, and plotlines of the program, describe the audiences targeted by the program and develop the socio-cultural milieu of the period during which it aired. How fully you develop each of these explanations will depend upon which critical perspective you have chosen.

3. Choose one critical approach to your television show, then develop arguments from this approach. That is, how does this viewpoint help us to understand the program. What can we learn by viewing your television show through this critical lens? Be sure to provide adequate explanations and examples to support your conclusions.

4. You should have added at least another 10 sources which are NOT included in my source list. (The list is in the upload file, please make sure not to use the same sources which already in the list)

Example of the paper organization

• Introduction
  • central critical question
  • Why should we ask this question?
  • How will you develop the answer?
  • Forecast/preview the major topics
• Background
• Body
  • Develop the critical question(s)
  • Provide evidence to support your answers
  • Discuss implications of your answers (so what??)
• Conclusion
  • Summarize the main idea developed in the paper
  • Summarize what we learned from this paper
• Work Cited (in consistent MLA style)

Rubric

• clear organization
• paper preview/forecast
• critical question indicated
• sufficient background information
• well developed ideas
• sources indicated
• logical flow of content
• adequate continuity
• proofread (minimal grammatical, spelling & other errors)
• credible outside sources/research
• argument(s) developed
• claims supported with evidence/examples
• reaches clear conclusion(s)addresses “so what” question—what is the value of this work/media criticism generally, that is, what did we learn from this analysis