The purpose of this assignment is to critically watch and review a movie with popular culture themes

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to critically watch and review a movie with popular culture themes/symbols in terms of the sociological perspective and cultural theories.

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.  If you would like to analyze a movie that is not on the list, please send me a message to clear it with me.

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                       NDogma

Chocolate                Parenthood                 Shawshank Redemption

Last Castle            Witness                           Meet Joe Black

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

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

b) one-page description/summary of the contents of the film; some questions you could address are:

-Major substantive points of the movie?

-Any secondary points made?

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

 

General requirements:

• Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, 1″ margins, times new roman 12 pt font, and saved as .doc, .docx, .pdf.
• Use APA format for citations and references
• View the grading rubric so you understand how you will be assessed on this Assignment.
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