Movie and Film Studies

Food Documentary Response As interest in food and politics has grown, so have the number of documentaries produced about various aspects of food, political implications, and even global implications. Choose a documentary from the attached list below and then complete the following. • Watch the movie. • Type up a 300 + word response to […]

Watch this riveting documentary(Morning Sun) on the Cultural Revolution and write a two-page write-up describing one particular aspect or part of the documentary that particularly interested/bothered you and what you learned from that aspect. http://www.morningsun.org/film/index.html The one source required is this movie. Nothing else. This is a Chinese version of this movie.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZaY846Wpj0&index=1&list=PL82C0877EC48F84D7) I tried looking […]

What do you like about the movie? What do you not like about the movie? Find a movie review. Put the entire review in quotes, and show respect for intellectual property by citing the source, either in the body of the text, a footnote or a bibliography. Do you agree or disagree with the movie […]

1) Analyze any one movie or TV series or type of movie or TV series in cultural terms (this can refer to anything political, any myths of the society, any implicit beliefs or ideologies regarding such things as class, race, gender, success or failure, and so on)—following class discussion and basing your analysis on the […]

he two movies we have watched up to this point in the semester, Gangs of New York and Modern Times, both deal with disadvantaged groups coping with tremendous change and upheaval in America. Your first major writing assignment is to analyze one (not both) of these movies and what it says about the struggles of […]

If you were offered the role of the villain or the hero in a movie, which role would you accept and why? Preferred essay on villain.

Select a movie from the following list. (Alternately, your instructor may approve an appropriate movie not listed here). Remember the Titans Glory Miracle Saving Private Ryan The Godfather (any of the series) Band of Brothers Ghandi PT109 Zulu Lawrence of Arabia Stand by Me Annapolis The Devil Wears Prada King Rat The Iron Lady Write […]