Film for viewing and analysis:
Choose one film for viewing and analysis from the following list:
Now, Voyager (1942)
Bambi (1942)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
Imitation of Life (1959)
West Side Story (1961)
Love Story (1970)
Brian’s Song (1971)
The Way We Were (1973)
Rocky (1976)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
The ColourPurple (1985)
Beaches (1988)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Ghost (1990)
Long-time Companion (1990)
Dying Young (1991)
Thelma and Louise (1991)
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
Titanic (1997)
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Dreamgirls (2006)
Write an analysis of how the film positions women. Take into consideration how the narrative is told, how the woman/women are portrayed, what assumptions about gender are made, and how the film produces meanings about women/gender and about race, class and sexuality in North American culture.