Offer your own theory of film in the form of a theoretical manifesto

Offer your own theory of film in the form of a theoretical manifesto. Over the last several weeks, we have read theoretical manifestos by Comolli and Narboni and Laura Mulvey. Now is your chance to write your own theoretically-informed treatise. Your manifesto should reflect an engagement with course content (concepts, terms, arguments, and so on), but should also mirror the form of a theoretical manifesto of the type we have read and discussed. Try, then, to think of not just what you will argue for, but also how you will argue for it in this particular kind of document. In developing your own theoretical position, you can try one on that you might experiment for, but try to organize our thinking around a specific issue. Are you taking on film and ideology, film and gender, film and sexuality? Are you advocating for the need for altogether new concepts and film theories (in light of technological advancement, say? If so, which ones?)? Regardless of what you advocate, you will need to have some engagement with course texts; either because they present something you want to build on, or because they articulate what you are reacting against or want to break with (which obliges you to say why you are breaking with certain authors and what they said that you want to take some distance from). Thus your document will have a substantial textual engagement with course authors and will have citations. Specificity is key here, in every respect. Your document will have a thesis, and will use evidence, and the more specific and precise it is in this, the stronger it will be.