THIS IS WHAT IT WRITES ON MY ASSIGNMENT PAGE
Building on your close analysis skills, you will now zoom out and shift from a primarily academic to a popular/public audience. Imagine you are writing a cultural studies piece for a venue like Slate, Atlantic, New Yorker, New Republic, LA Review of Books, or Jacobin. You will zoom in on a few key moments or scenes from the text, film, or TV show you’re analyzing, but your goal now is to situate that text within broader cultural and artistic conversations in order to make an argument for the text’s political, social, or philosophical significance. For example, you could examine Anatomy of a Fall as an innovative take on the whodunit, one that draws attention to the slipperiness of narrative. How does the film draw on but also depart from thrillers and mysteries, and how does its genre allow it to illuminate something about narrative in unique ways—ways that other genres or forms perhaps couldn’t or won’t? Or how does The Good Place draw on and innovate within the tradition of the sitcom in order to stage new conversations about what it means to be a good person? And why does this matter?
Consider a contemporary (from the last five or 10 years) text, film, or TV series and analyze the way it innovates (or fails to innovate!) within a genre or genres. Think about how and why this matters. How does the text’s use of genre(s) or tradition(s) illuminate cultural, political, or social questions? You can choose a text that asks interesting and complicated questions by innovating within a genre, or you can choose a text you think is dangerous or problematic (or simply disappointing) for its use or misuse of genre.
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