This week we’ll be looking at several different critical theories and academic styles of responding to a
film.
First, watch the 2006 Golden Globe-winning movie “Babel.”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VV99BRUKaVTN05YSLxuJ0aS9X80ZRAR/view
Second, scan the critical essays below, all about the movie “Babel.” Some are more accessible than
others.
Find one that sounds interesting and read it more carefully. The idea is to find other scholars who can
make richer your understanding of a piece of media, who can help you connect together various ideas
about the
world, as represented by this carefully assembled film. Will upload files. (The first five pages from the
Müberra
Yuksel manuscript seem the most understandable.)
For this week’s post, write a response to the movie “Babel” that’s informed by some of the above criticism.
If
you were performing as an academic critic, you’d begin a project with a “literature review,” a summary of
key
text that have been written about your topic. The above texts, then, serve as your “Babel” lit review. You
can
also look up reviews in popular media https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/babelor research how “Babel”
did
financially at the Box Office Mojo site. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl155551233/
Sample Solution
