Mid term writing: Wednesday morning

The topic is "Gender" and "Sex".  Here are five movies to use as fields of research:

1. "Adam's Rib" - Hepburn and Tracy - social roles, social movements, marriage, children, careers, winner-loser - and important final scene 
2. "Masculine Feminine" - new wave, Godard (very French - significant moments and lines throughout)
3. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" - original version (a woman "beyond gender" - both in traumatic incident and in ability to earn her own living and in "non-feminine" but sexy orientation towards sex)
4. "Stepford Wives" - as suggested by MoMo (I have still to watch this one)
5. "The Hours" - (three generations of women:  the woman artist with the controlling husband, the mid 50s American housewife, trapped in her house with the duty to raise children and bake and smile; the single career girl in New York City who loves a man who is gay, and she becomes gay herself - sort of.)

What will you look for in the movie you select?  look for the evolutionary patterns as discussed in class; look for the rebellion against the stereotypical patterns; look for who looks at whom, who looks away; look for who talks more and about what; look for economic power bases of men and women and what happens when the economic power shifts from men to women; look for

Essay to be typed, double-spaced.  Due end Wednesday NOON - or by arrangement.

(Arrangement:  you may choose an alternate topic to research which is close to you, e.g., one student may wish to write about the origins of M.E. tensions.  Another may choose to write about the current media reporting on religion:  If you wish to veer off gender as a topic, email me and talk with me on Wednesday).

See you at 9:15 AM Wednesday.