Past Work - Analysis & Summaries

 Ephraim Belnap

A picture from my essay analyzing Middle Eastern influences on the Mass Effect video game franchise

I'm a good analyzer of film themes and content. This has extended to essay-writing and to a thriving habit of wiki contribution. Specifically the TVTropes wiki that catalogues and recaps stories and storytelling devices.  

Analysis

"The Raid" Raids: Why People Keep Copying Gareth Evans 

https://filmlitcrit.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-raid-raids-why-people-keep-copying.html 

An in-depth breakdown of how the methods, tropes, and choreography of seminal martial arts film The Raid have been copied in subsequent films since its release. 

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The Quarians: A Mish-Mash of Middle Eastern Tropes

https://filmlitcrit.blogspot.com/2021/07/quarians-mish-mash-of-middle-east-tropes.html 

A breakdown of how the writing in seminal video game series Mass Effect drew from many real-life cultures to make a compelling and dramatically powerful fictional species. 

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Mass Effect - Where The Geth Come From 

https://filmlitcrit.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-geth-study-in-self-determination.html 

A breakdown of how the writing in seminal video game series Mass Effect drew from many prominent sci-fi adaptations and real-life histories of oppression to tell a compelling story about artificial intelligence and human empathy. 

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Summaries - TVTropes 

Recap Page - The Pacific 

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/ThePacific 

A link to descriptions of individual episodes of the well-known historical war miniseries The Pacific, all written by me, bar some minor edits. 

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General Page - Tennis Shoes Among The Nephites 

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TennisShoesAdventureSeries 

A link to a series of pages describing the long-running LDS adventure books Tennis Shoes Among The Nephites, an overwhelming majority of which were written by me.  Each of the first ten books has an individual entry with storytelling tropes written by me, and then a 600-2500-word summary of the book also written by me.