Film Critique

15% of final grade

Length: approximately 750 words

Description:

Pick a mainstream Hollywood film released within the past year. Then write a 750-word critique inwhich you explain how the film reinforces dominant ideological beliefs toward one of the following:gender, sexuality, race, or youth.

The materials for modules 7, 8, 9, and 10 are especially relevant for this assignment.

If you are focusing on gender, you might want to consider how the film portrays any of the following as an idealand/or natural phenomenon: the sexist division of labor; the nuclear family; the commodification of women’sbodies; the male gaze; sexist stereotypes.

If you are focusing on sexuality, you might want to consider the film’s representation of same-sex romance/sex,its implication that LGBT people are inherently “different,” or its use of gay stereotypes to legitimize traditionalmasculinity.

If you are focusing on race, you might want to consider any of the following: the portrayal of racial and/orethnic minorities as “Other”; the portrayal of white people as “saviours” of non-white people; the use of raciststereotypes; the film’s erasure of institutionalization racism; the notion of whiteness as a “neutral” racialidentity; the minimizing of racial inequality by implying that non-whites are “just like” whites or by implying thatwhites experience racial suffering as much as anyone.If you are focusing on youth, you might want to look at the text’s representation of youth sexuality, youth’spurported lack of discipline, youth subculture as destructive, or the effect social inequality has on youthalienation.

Note: If a character in the film is reinforcing dominant ideological beliefs (e.g. the character is racist, sexist, orhomophobic), this may not mean that the film itself is endorsing the character's problematic point of view.

You may discuss two or more categories (e.g. race and gender) if you wish.

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