Greeting,

Need a 'Review paper' in about two weeks... 23June.

 

Please let me know if it can be done.

Thank you

 

 

Instructions:

1) Select a movie: For this assignment, you will need to select one movie.  Even if it is a movie you have seen before, you need to re-watch the movie with a critical eye towards the social construction of reality and illustrations of other sociological/cultural concepts.  

 

Suggested Movie Options:

Hotel Rwanda	Brazil	Million Dollar Baby
Office Space	Gandhi	Boys Don’t Cry
The Village	Cape Fear (deNiro version)	Mystic River
Last Samurai	Mothman Prophecies	Traffic
The Wall	Glory	Stepford Wives
Pretty in Pink	Hoop Dreams	The Terminal
The Breakfast Club	It’s a Wonderful Life	Bowling for Columbine
Grapes of Wrath	Pretty Woman	The Hours
To Kill a Mockingbird	Citizen Kane	Cabin Fever
Clockwork Orange	Fight Club	Radio
Crash	Nosferatu	Titanic
The Gods Must be Crazy	Taxi Driver	Coming to America
American History X	Roger & Me	Fight Club
Inherit the Wind	Dead Poet’s Society	Mona Lisa’s Smile
Bullworth	Life is Beautiful	American Beauty
Lord of the Flies	The Truman Show	The Matrix
With Honors	Affluenza	Erin Brokovich
Working Girl	Risky Business	Baby Boom
Rain Man	Philadelphia	Dogma
Chocolat	Parenthood	Shawshank Redemption
Last Castle	Witness	Meet Joe Black

 

 

 

2) Analyze the movie: After watching the movie, you will write a 4-6 page review, consisting of:

a) intro paragraph noting the relevance of the movie to the course

b) one page description/summary of the contents of the film

-How was the story presented?

-------i.e. flashbacks, sequential, from a particular character's point of view, etc.

-What was the intention of the film and/or filmmaker?

-------Was this intention fulfilled or met?

-Did the way the movie was produced and presented affect the content?

-Were there specific scenes or occurrences, which stood out as being essential to the development of the story and/or to your understanding of it?

-Major substantive points of the movie?

-Any secondary points made?

-Any 'unintentional' results of the movie?

c) 0.5-1 page in which you discuss how popular culture themes were constructed in the movie use at least 3 examples

d) 1-2 pages in which you use at least 4 sociological/pop cultural concepts covered in this course to analyze the movie (cite class materials as you do so)

e) Analyze which issues emerged as the strongest...as the weakest?

f) Briefly compare the popular culture themes in the movie you watched for this assignment to another movie you have previously seen that had similar themes.

The paper should be typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, 1” margins

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