The final essay will be a 3-4 page essay (full pages not counting the words cited page) that will involve the a film we have watched in class ( Barbie, Mad Max: Fury Road, Promising Young Woman, or Moxie). Using the frameworks of love and sex, the student will analyze their given film and investigate how love, sex, feminism, and gender are interrogated throughout the movie. (Think of this essay as a critical look at a pop culture text and how popular culture informs society and how society informs what becomes popular).
The project should do the following things:
1. 1) The focus is one of the following films: Barbie, Mad Max: Fury Road, Promising Young Woman, Moxie.
2. 2) Analyze that piece of media as it relates to gender, love, and sex. Use Love and Sex: A Primer, Gender and Pop Culture, or any of the scholarly articles assigned from the modules. You’re also welcome to borrow specific arguments or context from the books or articles.
3. 3) Interrogate your film with a cohesive argument using the theories and ideologies presented throughout the semester.
4. 4) Use at least three scholarly sources to provide textual evidence. Scholarly sources are peer reviewed. (This is a formal academic paper. You may present your opinions (thesis/arguments) but must provide textual evidence to back them up.)
5. Adhere to MLA, Chicago or APA writing guidelines.
Analysis
Relying on the assigned reading and our class discussions, you should analyze the ways that gender, love, and sex are represented in the chosen film.
You can choose to look at how queer characters have evolved, how female characters are treated, specifically how sex (the physical act) is treated within the film, how popular culture has informed society’s ideas about love and sex, or some thread you find yourself. You are critiquing your chosen film using the frameworks we have read in our text books.