Mean Streets essay help

This is due in either Monday 2nd or Tuesday 3rd, depending on the day of your lesson.

All the class handouts are on Eloreto now. The most important one is the "different approaches to narrative" handout.

As a general guide you should concentrate on the following areas in your essay:

• comparing the narrative of Mean Streets to a traditional Hollywood narrative. Explain why Mean Streets does not fit into the classical Hollywood narrative structure and why it doesn't conform to Todorov's narrative model.
• Suggest some reasons why Scorsese has not followed a traditional narrative structure in Mean Streets.
• Discuss the different primary and secondary narratives present in Mean Streets
• Consider other approaches to understanding the narrative such as the 'ever increasing violence' narrative and the 'religious redemption' narrative.

It is well worth clicking on the picture on the previous 'Mean Streets' post and reading 'A Cinema of Loneliness' (pages 184- 195) to find more information on Mean Streets.