1. 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.
2. Interrogate your film with a cohesive argument using the theories and ideologies presented throughout the semester.
3. 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.)
4. Adhere to MLA, Chicago or APA writing guidelines.
Citation
Lipkin, Elline. “‘This Barbie Is a Feminist’: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Reckons with Her Fraught Legacy.” Ms. Magazine, 26 July 2023, https://msmagazine.com/2023/07/25/barbie-feminist-women-history/
Dewayani, Ardya, and Azwar. “Representation of gender equality in the ‘Barbie’ film: Semiotic Analysis of Roland Barthes.” JURNAL LENSA MUTIARA KOMUNIKASI, vol. 8, no. 1, 27 June 2024, pp. 125–136, https://doi.org/10.51544/jlmk.v8i1.4952.
Bobaru, Nicolae. “Reimagining Barbie. A feminist analysis of iconography and consumerism in the age of gender reevaluation.” Gender Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, 1 Dec. 2024, pp. 59–80, https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2024-0005.
Yakali, Dikmen. “Is she a feminist icon now? Barbie 2023 movie and a critique of post feminism.” Studies in Media and Communication, vol. 12, no. 1, 15 Dec. 2023, p. 198, https://doi.org/10.11114/smc.v12i1.6478.
Shepherd, Brooke Ashley. “‘Barbie Is as Much about Fashion as She Is about Culture and Empowerment’: Feminism in Barbie the Movie and Its Postfeminist Marketing.” CSUSB ScholarWorks, https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/1898/