Paper on Modern Films
Modern Films List (Post 1980) SOC 372 – Sociology of Film
· Moonlight* (2016)
· The Florida Project* (2017)
· Gook* (2017)
· 1917 (2019)
· Parasite (2019)
· Sorry to Bother You (2018)
· The Color Purple (1985)
· Dead Poets Society (1989)
· Do the Right Thing (1989)
· Glory (1989)
· The Killing Fields (1984)
· Platoon (1986)
· Raging Bull (1980)
· Children of Men (2006)
· Paris, Texas* (1984)
· The Last Black Man in San Francisco* (2019)
· Memento* (2001)
· Ex Machina* (2015)
· We Need to Talk About Kevin* (2011)
· Good Will Hunting (1997)
· The Shawshank Redemption (1997)
· Goodfellas (1990)
· There Will be Blood (2007)
· Her (2013)
· What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
· No Country for Old Men (2007)
· Brokeback Mountain (2005)
· The Lobster (2015)
· Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
* Available on Kanopy (free for WSU students). Most films may be viewed on streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. To avoid costs, Kanopy films have been marked.