INSTRUCTIONS: These topics are related to the poverty and/or the gender parts of the course. You are expected to do some research in relation to the specific issue and country/region in which your film or novel is based. Be sure you answer the question. Include properly cited quotes in your paper as well as a bibliography.
You must include at least 5 references, including at least two references from the handouts of chapters and articles, specifically “The Projection of Development” and the chapters from Scheck and Haggis’ Culture and Development. You may also use quotes from the various class handouts posted on Blackboard. Reference them as “Class Handout” with title.
Length: 1200 words, double spaced. Due Tuesday 8 December at 12:00 in class as a paper copy (late submission rules apply – see syllabus). You must also submit it on Safe Assign through the Blackboard site no later than December 9. Your paper cannot be marked until it has been posted on Safe Assignment – so be careful when you upload your document. It is your responsibility.
Choose ONE:
1. How do the films City of God (Meirelles, Brazil, 2002) and Slumdog Millionaire (2009) represent the relationship between poverty and the social problems it produces?
Compare and contrast how the films project specific cultural issues and if they offer any solutions.
2. Whereas Barmak’s film Osama represents despair, Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns represents hope. Explore this idea, considering how the different mediums shape the specific perspectives.
3. How do Makhmalbaf’s film At Five in the Afternoon and Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns portray ‘post Taliban’ Afghanistan (around 2003)? Compare and contrast the ‘spirit’ of the country ravaged by its past, considering how the different mediums shape the stories.
4. The film Moolaade (2004) by the Senegalese filmmaker, Sembene Ousmane, “ at first appears to be about the ugliness associated with female genital mutilation…but it is really about wider issues…(where) the villain in the film is cultural stagnation.” What are the wider issues in the film that relate to the practice of FGM?
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