media essay 5-6 pages due 12 hours
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Media Essay
Gender, Sexuality, and Medicalization
Media Essay
Media essay (30% of final grade): five-six page critique of a film, television show, or any other type of visual media that focuses on one of the themes and topics that have been discussed in class. You must discuss at least TWO readings from the course in your paper. Your paper must have a thesis.
Media Essay
Due date: 12.5.17
Instructions
Essay Format
Five to six pages
Essays must be double-spaced.
12 pt. Times New Roman font.
No extraneous spaces between paragraphs.
Media Essay
Instructions cont.
In text citation: (Author Year: Page)
Reference format: MLA, Chicago, APA
Be consist with the citation format chosen.
Wikipedia, blog entries, or information gathered from a website are not appropriate sources. Information gathered from news sites is permissible, e.g., Salon, Slate, Bust, and Ms., among others like these sites.
Media essay
Turn essays in at the beginning of class
Submit paper online under “Assignments” tab
If you do not submit paper online, you will receive a “0” on the paper until you do.
Late papers:
2% deduction every 24 hours
Extensions:
Accommodation documentation
Extraordinary circumstances
Media Essay
Summarize the film
Critical analysis
Thesis
Make an argument
Make an interesting and unexpected argument
Support the argument
Draw upon issues, concepts, notions, and themes from the semester
Media Essay
Papers will be evaluated according to the following 5 criteria:
The extent to which the student follows instructions of the assignment, in particular having a well-developed and thoughtful thesis (/10)
Intellectual creativity and rigor (/10)
Ability to integrate concepts and themes from across readings (readings are in conversation with each other) (/10)
Depth of analysis (/10)
Clarity and organization of writing; grammatical and editing issues (/10)
How to write the media essay
Watch
How is women’s desire and pleasure being represented?
What message is the media sending?
Who is the targeted audience? How do you know?
How is gender and gender roles depicted?
Who is being represented: class, race, religion, sexual partners?
How to write the media essay
Contemplate:
What did you find interesting?
What did you find troubling?
How does this media relate to class themes?
Women’s desire and pleasure in relation to freedom, choice, heteronormativity, class, race, social and cultural norms
Representations of women as sexual objects
Medicalization of women’s sexuality and desire
How can you analyze these themes?
Psychoanalytical approaches to women and desire
Second and third wave feminist theories
Feminist film theory
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How to write the film essay
Develop
Make a claim
Think persuasively (meaning, make an argument that can not be easily argued, e.g., “the sun is hot,” “racism and sexism are bad,” and “it’s great that women enjoy sex.”
Gather evidence: examples from film, class readings, and class discussion that bolster your claim
Write!
Summarize film
Focus on main argument
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