Film and Culture
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Reflective Writing
For this class we were asked to submit our mid-term or final paper and to write a reflective writing answering these questions.
1. How has this class helped you become a more informed film consumer? Explain how you have sharpened your interpretive skills concerning the power of media and become more of an active viewer.
This class has helped me to explore American cultures through their representations in contemporary cinema, as well as apply critical/theoretical approaches to these representations, including race, ethnicity, gender, class, urban and rural America, ability/disability, sexual orientation, and even issues specific to generations.
It has helped me to develop an understanding of films in their socio-cultural, ideological and inter-textual functions, to examine the role of film in depicting and creating identities; to study the unique properties of film as an artistic and cultural product, and to investigate our roles as consumers of cinema.
2. How has this course given you more awareness, sensitivity and respect for cultural and human differences in the United States?
This course explored film as a critical social mirror. It has helped me to view and discuss the socio-cultural and aesthetic factors that shape cinematic representations of race, class, gender, sexuality and physical ability, to name a few. American struggles with diversity and the forces and institutions of bias were examined, promoting an ability to listen to the under-represented voices of varied perspectives.
For this class we were asked to submit our mid-term or final paper and to write a reflective writing answering these questions.
1. How has this class helped you become a more informed film consumer? Explain how you have sharpened your interpretive skills concerning the power of media and become more of an active viewer.
This class has helped me to explore American cultures through their representations in contemporary cinema, as well as apply critical/theoretical approaches to these representations, including race, ethnicity, gender, class, urban and rural America, ability/disability, sexual orientation, and even issues specific to generations.
It has helped me to develop an understanding of films in their socio-cultural, ideological and inter-textual functions, to examine the role of film in depicting and creating identities; to study the unique properties of film as an artistic and cultural product, and to investigate our roles as consumers of cinema.
2. How has this course given you more awareness, sensitivity and respect for cultural and human differences in the United States?
This course explored film as a critical social mirror. It has helped me to view and discuss the socio-cultural and aesthetic factors that shape cinematic representations of race, class, gender, sexuality and physical ability, to name a few. American struggles with diversity and the forces and institutions of bias were examined, promoting an ability to listen to the under-represented voices of varied perspectives.