Posted: June 8th, 2015
Week Eight Writing Assignment (Submit as Signature Assignment below))
Writing Assignment for Week Eight: (90 pts)
NOTE: This is also a “Signature Assignment” for Course Assessment. Submit below.]
Your Foreign Film Review
Your instructor will be assigning you each a “foreign” or other-than-mainstream-subgroup-member film to watch and in a minimum two-page paper review it for the class by responding to the following questions:
1. What did you learn about another culture through watching your film?
2. Do you feel that that depiction was ethnically authentic or Hollywoodized?
NOTE: In order to answer this question properly you must conduct some additional internet research on the culture you observed in the movie. Without research your answer would be based on your stereotypes, and that goes against the purpose of this class. Please be sure to review and cite three sources in your paper. Don’t forget to include a references page.
3. What specifically did you like about the film that would induce you to recommend it to your friends?
4. What specifically did you dislike about the film to dissuade you from recommending it to your friends?
The Film Matches:
(Your instructor has supplied direct hyperlinks to IMDB for each director so that you can appreciate the international range of their backgrounds. He or she will be assigning the films early in the term.)
Brokeback Mountain (2005) Director Ang Lee
White (1994) Director Krzysztof Kieslowski
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) Director Phillip Noyce
Earth (1998) Director Deepa Mehta
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) Director Yimou Zhang
Paradise Now (2005) Director Hany Abu-Assad
Monsoon Wedding (2001) Director Mira Nair
Smoke Signals (1998) Director Chris Eyre
El Norte(1983) Director Gregory Nava
Frida (2002) Director Julie Taymor
Burnt by the Sun (1995) Director Nikita Mikhalkov
Mississippi Masala (1991) Director Mira Nair
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003) Director François Dupeyron
A Taxing Woman (1987) Director Juzo Itami
The House of Sand and Fog (2003) Director Vadim Perelman
Like Water for Chocolate (1992) Director Gregory Nava
Devil’s Playground (2002) Director Lucy Walker
Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Director Yimou Zhang
The Fast Runner (2002) Director Zacharias Kunuk
Witness (1985) Director Peter Weir
The Magdalene Sisters (2002) Director Peter Mullan
Once Were Warriors (1994) Director Lee Tamahori
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Director Danny Boyle
A Separation (2011) Director Asghar Farhadi
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