Essay 3 outline

TS (Intro) Valery's Ankle, by Brett Kashmere, looks at the violence in hockey and hockey's place in Canadian culture.
Thesis: Brett questions hockey's values and their correlation to Canadian national pride by analyzing the 1972 Summit Games, Todd Bertuzzi's assault on Steve Moore and other acts of hockey violence.

I. The medium used to present the art
TS - Through film Brett was able to show the violence of hockey, although video was one of the few media that could accomplish this, that doesn't mean that some things are lost in translation
1)Video
a) how this shows his points better
b) how this retracts from his points

II. The content in the film
TS - Brett uses film from throughout hockey's history to show the audience the violence that has become hockey.
1)NHL expands
a) more teams in larger cities. Leads to need to "sell" hockey
2)1972 Summit Series
a) Canada vs. USSR in Canadian national sport
b) Canadian team wants to win so bad that they resort to cheap tactics including the "accidental" injuring of the Soviets best player.

III. Intended Impact
TS - Brett created this in an attempt to question the values of hockey that are associated with Canada, and to bring to light the violence, brutality, and thuggery that has become hockey.
1)Brett's reason for creating film
2)impact on myself after watching film

IV. Actual Impact
TS - Valery's Ankle is not a sports fan's plea to "save" his sport it is a citizen concerned with what hockey has become to Canada.
1)The election after the 1972 Summit Series

Conclusion
TS: Valery's Ankle was an attempt to get people to question what they thought about hockey, and more the way that Canada was represented by hockey and the way that it even affected their history.
Thesis: Brett uses hockey as a vehicle to try and get the Canadian people to take a look at their values and make them why they are so dependent upon hockey.

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