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| Course M, 2:30-5:20 W, 2:30-4:20 Thomson 125 |
| Instructor K. Gillis-Bridges Padelford A305 543-4892 MW, 1:00-2:20 |
| Page last updated 10/17/02 |
Assignment Suggestions: First Optional Due Date
Before the first optional assignment due date, we will have seen How Men Propose, Making an American Citizen, The Blot, Christopher Strong, Craig’s Wife, Not Wanted, Maedchen in Uniform, and Marianne and Juliane. Your essay may address any two of these films. The following list of themes should yield fruitful comparisons:
- relationships between women (friends, mothers/daughters, sisters, classmates, students/teachers)
- romantic relationships
- relationship between “career” and emotional life
- relationship between the personal and the political
- critiques of particular institutions (marriage, family, religion, political parties or movements)
- gender roles
- class relations/issues of class
- sex and sexuality
- representations of immigrants
- the function of the ending