Students who need to use movie titles in essays can lose marks if they don't know how to write the title properly. So, it’s important to comprehend the exact rules of using movie names in an essay.
Let’s do it now.
You have to write essays for your college or university. You may use the names of movies as examples in your essay or write a critical analysis of a movie in your essay for the sake of your college/university assignments. But you can’t write them wrong because your grades will decrease. Don’t worry. We are here to help you.
For starters –
Take the following as examples to understand the process of using movie titles in an essay better. Let’s have a look –
In an essay on World War II, Dave uses the reference to Darkest Hour to explain Winston Churchill’s methods of taking courageous decisions and how that changed the shape of world history.
In an essay on the importance of mathematics, Joey used the name of the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’ to explain how the power of mathematics changed John Nash's life.
In an essay on the heroes of Second World War II, Ken gave the reference to Hacksaw Ridge to explain the courage and humanity of Desmond T. Doss, who saved 75 lives without even firing a shot.
Students often make some common mistakes in essays while using references to any movie. If you want to secure your grades, you must avoid those mistakes. So, let's take a look –
If you follow a few old sample essays, you will see a tendency to underline movie titles. But now it is considered a mistake. So, stop using Underline right now. And make use of quotation marks or capitalize and italicize the names.
There are different style guides for various publications or academic fields. But you can’t use different styles in one essay. You must follow your university guidelines before making any changes to your essay.
A lot of movies have multiple titles. Productions retitle movies to appeal to various countries. For example, 'Mad Max 2' was named 'The Road Warrior' in the USA and 'Fever Pitch' was retitled 'The Perfect Catch' in the UK. Make sure you are aware of the right movie names before you use that in your essay unless the readers don't understand your reference.
Often, students write movie titles in different ways in different paragraphs in one essay, such as in one paragraph, they capitalize the movie name and italicize in the other. But that is not going to work, right? So, try to be consistent while using movie names in an essay.
Students often forget to capitalize the movie titles, which not only looks unprofessional but also lowers their value. But remember that you must capitalize the first and last words of any movie title you have used in your essay. Also, you need to capitalize nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. For example, “Ruthless People,” “Fast Times at Ridge Mont High.”
Often, students become so overconfident about movie names that they make silly mistakes, such as they get confused between ‘A’ and ‘The.’ This mainly happens with long movie titles. For example, "Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" or "The Assassinations of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford." We can understand if you misplace a 'The' with an 'A' while giving references to these films. But your professors will surely reduce your marks.
A lot of movies have almost similar titles and making mistakes between those while writing the title is very common. For example, there are two movies – "The House on Haunted Hill" and "The Haunting of Hill House." So, you can see how easy it is to make mistakes between them. But you need to be very careful while writing the titles because you don't want to confuse your professors and shrink your grades!
Your essays need to maintain consistency to prove their clarity. A proper style guide can help you to do that. You can use styles like MLA, APA, Chicago, and AP when writing movie titles in an essay. If your professor gives you the freedom to choose a format on your own, you must do it very carefully. It is because you have to take various points into consideration before choosing the format, such as –
You must maintain consistency. So, make sure you are using only one style throughout the paper.
Final Thoughts,
We hope you now understand the rules of using movie titles in your essay. Try to follow our advice and format your paper following your university guidelines. Also, you must avoid common mistakes. And no one will be able to decrease your marks!
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