Scholarly Article Evaluation

Watch Tod Browning’s film Freaks (1932) (see link below) and apply Adam Golub’s critical framework to the monstrous. Focus on specific scenes, characters, actions, settings, themes, dialogues, plot developments, etc. First deconstruct the monster (close read), then...

How I Built This

Listen to How I Built ThisListen to several episodes of the podcast How I Built This, an entertaining podcast in which the host interviews entrepreneurs about their businesses, with each episode being between about 45-60 minutes. It is available for free through your...

Satire: National Lampoon’s Animal House

Film to watch is National Lampoon’s Animal House a 1978 American comedy film about a misfit group of fraternity members who challenge the authority of the dean of Faber College. Animal House received generally mixed reviews from critics, but Time and Roger Ebert...

Salt of the Earth, an Banned American Film

You need to write at least 250 words and 3-4 Works Cited from different sources found in Module or Reading Log or Other Academic Site. Salt of the Earth is a classic American film. As you read in the module, the film was blacklisted in the United States for its...

The Haunted, Directed by David Holroyd

1.) Is the movie based in realism or formalism? Why? Use specific examples.2) What is the theme of the movie? The main idea that the movie is even about.3) Become a non-passive viewer. Which means start analyzing the use of shots, angles, lighting, color,...

The new Latinos

Review Film Discussion Guidelines and Grading Criteria on the syllabus. Watch PBS Documentary https://www.pbs.org/video/latino-americans-episode-4-new-latinos/Episode 4 https://www.ket.org/program/latino-americans/episode-4-the-new-latinos/Highlights the swelling...