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Prompt
Read Writing about Movies, “Cultural Analysis,” 55–100.
Select a film released after 1920 from my Letterboxd list of New York City films and answer the following questions about the film you selected.
- How does the film represent certain characters according to one of these cultural analytic dimensions?
- socioeconomic status
- gender
- race, ethnicity, national origin
- sexual orientation
- What genre does this film belong to? Which two characteristics make it so?
- story formulas
- themes
- character types
- setting
- presentation and iconic imagery
- stars
- What does this film tell us about the society and culture of New York City at the time the film was made?