Assignment
Instructions: Write a800-1000 word essay and hand this in (paper copy) on the day of your in-class midterm, Friday June 8 at 1:30. You must also post it on Blackboard.Late assignments will be penalized (re University's Late Submission Policy)
Choose ONE of the following:
1. Choose any one of the ‘chick flicks' from the list below (from the past 10 years) and identify the postfeminist elementsthat the film celebrates. Do you think there are any contradictions in the film that basically reinscribe traditional attitudes for women?
How to Be Single (2016)
Girls Trip (2017)
27 Dresses (2008)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Friends with Benefits (2011)
The Proposal (2009)
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Sex and The City (2008)
2. Choose any one of the filmsfrom the list below that self-consciously explores "masculinityin crisis". What is the film saying about violence and/or consumerism? How does the film not glorify hegemonic masculinity? Does it imply there are any resolutions to the dilemmas the film poses about renegotiating masculinity in today's society?
Drive (2011)
The Wrestler (2008)
American Beauty (1999)
Don Juan (2013)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Shame (2011)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Hell or Highwater (2016)
The In-Class Midterm(Part Two) (Friday 8 June at 1:30; 50 minutes)
There will be 3 questions that you must answer, writing 2 paragraphs for each question:
1)a question on Gone Girl and femme fatales;
2) a question on Pretty Woman and postfeminism;
3) aquestion on masculinities drawing on either Fight Club or The Full Monty.
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.