Summary: Extra Credit Film Opportunities
Cultural Anthropology Extra Credit Film Opportunities Due: Week 16
You can choose up to 6 films (3 points each) to view and prepare a short (1-2 pages, typed, black ink, 12 pt. font, double spaced) paper discussing the film. You may want to choose one film from each group but that is not required. Please include the time of the class you are enrolled in and staple your papers. I will not accept emailed extra credit.
For your write up: * Identify the anthropological topic or subject of the film. What do you think is the topic film group? For example, does this film expose issues of gender inequality? Religious intolerance? Ethnocentric attitudes? In other words, why do you think I chose these particular films? How do they …show more content…
To eke out a meager living, they dress up their 12-year-old girl, Osama, as a boy so she can work. A talented cast of non-actors -- including Marina Golbahari and Zubaida Sahar -- adds integrity to the heartbreaking story.
Transamerica (2005) R
Bree (Felicity Huffman) gets the shock of her life a week before her final sex change surgery when she discovers a son she didn't know she had. After bailing him out of jail, the two set out on a cross-country journey riddled with road bumps. Huffman won numerous awards (and an Oscar nomination) for her role as a man longing to be a woman.
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) PG-13
When 9-year-old Chiyo is sold to a Kyoto geisha house, she endures harsh treatment from the owners and the haughty head geisha, Hatsumomo -- who's envious of Chiyo's stunning beauty -- only to be rescued by Hatsumomo's rival. Chiyo blooms in her role as a geisha, but World War II threatens to change her privileged life forever. Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh and Li Gong star in this Oscar-winning period drama based on Arthur Golden's …show more content…
Walter Salles's film is based on Guevara's diaries of the trek, a deeply personal odyssey that ultimately crystallized the young man's budding political beliefs.
Quinceañera (2006) R
This sensitive coming-of-age drama, a 2006 Sundance Film Festival award winner, tells the story of Magdalena (Emily Rios), who, on the brink of her 15th birthday, finds her comfortable existence shattered by the discovery that she's pregnant. Cast out by her parents, the once-privileged teen finds safe haven with a great-granduncle and a gay cousin (Jesse Garcia), who introduce her to a world far different from her gentrified middle-class life.
3 Idiots (2009) NR- Bollywood While attending one of India's premier colleges, miserable engineering students and best friends Rancho (Aamir Khan), Farhan (Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman Joshi) struggle to beat their school's draconian system, which, in their eyes, unfairly values grades over creativity. Loosely based on Chetan Bhagat's best-selling novel Five Point Someone, this entertaining Bollywood comedy also stars Kareena Kapoor and Boman
You can choose up to 6 films (3 points each) to view and prepare a short (1-2 pages, typed, black ink, 12 pt. font, double spaced) paper discussing the film. You may want to choose one film from each group but that is not required. Please include the time of the class you are enrolled in and staple your papers. I will not accept emailed extra credit.
For your write up: * Identify the anthropological topic or subject of the film. What do you think is the topic film group? For example, does this film expose issues of gender inequality? Religious intolerance? Ethnocentric attitudes? In other words, why do you think I chose these particular films? How do they …show more content…
To eke out a meager living, they dress up their 12-year-old girl, Osama, as a boy so she can work. A talented cast of non-actors -- including Marina Golbahari and Zubaida Sahar -- adds integrity to the heartbreaking story.
Transamerica (2005) R
Bree (Felicity Huffman) gets the shock of her life a week before her final sex change surgery when she discovers a son she didn't know she had. After bailing him out of jail, the two set out on a cross-country journey riddled with road bumps. Huffman won numerous awards (and an Oscar nomination) for her role as a man longing to be a woman.
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) PG-13
When 9-year-old Chiyo is sold to a Kyoto geisha house, she endures harsh treatment from the owners and the haughty head geisha, Hatsumomo -- who's envious of Chiyo's stunning beauty -- only to be rescued by Hatsumomo's rival. Chiyo blooms in her role as a geisha, but World War II threatens to change her privileged life forever. Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh and Li Gong star in this Oscar-winning period drama based on Arthur Golden's …show more content…
Walter Salles's film is based on Guevara's diaries of the trek, a deeply personal odyssey that ultimately crystallized the young man's budding political beliefs.
Quinceañera (2006) R
This sensitive coming-of-age drama, a 2006 Sundance Film Festival award winner, tells the story of Magdalena (Emily Rios), who, on the brink of her 15th birthday, finds her comfortable existence shattered by the discovery that she's pregnant. Cast out by her parents, the once-privileged teen finds safe haven with a great-granduncle and a gay cousin (Jesse Garcia), who introduce her to a world far different from her gentrified middle-class life.
3 Idiots (2009) NR- Bollywood While attending one of India's premier colleges, miserable engineering students and best friends Rancho (Aamir Khan), Farhan (Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman Joshi) struggle to beat their school's draconian system, which, in their eyes, unfairly values grades over creativity. Loosely based on Chetan Bhagat's best-selling novel Five Point Someone, this entertaining Bollywood comedy also stars Kareena Kapoor and Boman