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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 12/6/02 |
Assignment Suggestions: Third Optional Due Date
Essays submitted for the second optional assignment due date will compare and contrast any two of the following films: Illusions,Daughters of the Dust, The Watermelon Woman, or Boys Don't Cry. In your essay, you will present an argument about the significance of the films’ connections, and you will develop this argument by analyzing the narrative, contextual and/or formal elements (setting, costume, lighting, shots, editing, sound, etc.) of both films.
The following list of themes should yield fruitful comparisons. You may propose other themes or a paper comparing one of the listed films with an earlier film, but you will need to speak to me before proceeding.
- gender roles (construction of masculinity and/or femininity; gender as performance)
- relationships between women (friends, lovers, family, co-workers)
- interracial
relationships
- woman as subject and object
- the gaze
- representations of film or Hollywood
- function of time
- relationship between past and present (or past, present, and future)
- transgressive bodies
- sex and sexuality
- constructed
identities or icons
- beauty
standards/revision of beauty standards
- relationship
between form and content (how these films create forms to tell
previously untold stories)
- function of "historical" figures