romantic comedy in its historical and cultural context
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romantic comedy in its historical and cultural context
Paper Instructions:
Research Paper. A longer paper, 1750-2000 words, using a minimum of SIX peer-reviewed academic sources. The topic is of your choice, but related to the materials of the class; the focus should be on thinking about romantic comedy in its historical and cultural context(s).
Paper Proposal:
- Your object of study. This will most likely be a particular work: Much Ado About Nothing or The Philadelphia Story or Top Five. It COULD be a set of works, conceivably: screwball comedies directed by Howard Hawks, for example, with Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday as the examples. But if you take this second route, be sure to define the object of study very narrowly. You can’t pick, say, “1990s romantic comedies,” or “Jane Austen novels. ” You just can’t realistically expect to cover more than two works in a paper of this length.
- “But, I’m a Cheerleader” and “Moonstruck”
- Your topic: that is, the angle of approach, the specific framework or set of concerns that you’re going to take up with respect to your object of study. It’s worth defining this clearly and keeping it in view as a distinct thing from the object of study. So, for instance: perhaps you’re writing about It Happened One Night and you want to address questions of patriarchy. So the object of study is the film, but the topic is “patriarchy in It Happened One Night. ” The topic is NOT, please note, just “patriarchy”: that’s WAY more than you can handle in a paper like this. The topic connects a specific object of study to a broader issue or terrain of concern. Properly speaking, the topic consists of both elements.
- Religious guilt in the rom-com movies “But, I’m a Cheerleader” and “Moonstruck”
- Your thesis, as far as you can currently see it. The thesis is the actual argument you think you will make about your topic. I don’t expect you to stick to your thesis as you currently imagine it: surely the process of researching and thinking about the topic will cause your views to change. If they don’t, frankly, you’re not doing it right. But it’s important to have a planned destination in mind at the outset: otherwise it’s going to be
very difficult to decide what is, and what is not, relevant to your paper. The usual rules about theses of course apply: your claim has to be specific, it has to be disputable (i.e., it has to be possible that you’re wrong), it must require proof (i.e., it can’t be obvious), it’s not merely an opinion, and it’s not a matter of fact (which is either true or untrue, but doesn’t require argument or persuasion). Those are just the general
rules that apply to thesis statements universally, but I’ll just remind you of them.
In the movies “But, I’m a Cheerleader” and “Moonstruck”, religion is used to “guilt trip” the main characters into acting “the right way” according to society.
- The “so what?”: the payoff, the benefit of proving your claim. This is where you make the case that the whole issue should matter to us now. It might not be necessary to do this explicitly: if your topic is “patriarchy in It Happened One Night,” it’s pretty obvious why we would care about patriarchy, and the only thing you
would need to establish as a “so what?” is some kind of claim that understanding how patriarchy works in this specific film is worthwhile. Some other topics really may carry their “so what?” within them. But it’s generally good for the last step of a proposal to make some gesture toward why your readers should be
Invested.
- Religion is made to make a believer feel safe and forgiven with the higher being that they are praising. In “But, I’m a Cheerleader”, religion is used to shame the main character for being “gay”. In that same movie, there is a boy that came from a Jewish family that was also sent to the “conversion camp”. In the movie “Moonstruck”, Sher found herself cheating with her fiancé’s brother. When running out of a store, she ran into two nuns. I believe that serves as a reminder of the “sins” that she is doing. The question is, why do romcoms (specifically these two pieces) use religion as a “guilt enhancer” for just simply basking in the human experience?
Annotated Bibliography: Feel free to find some more peer reviewed articles to fit your needs.
Object: “But, I’m a Cheerleader” and “Moonstruck”
Topic: Religious guilt in the rom-com movies “But, I’m a Cheerleader” and “Moonstruck”
Thesis: In the movies “But, I’m a Cheerleader” and “Moonstruck”, religion is used to “guilt trip” the main characters into acting “the right way” according to society.
- What Is Religion
- Indinopulos, Thomas A. “‘What is Religion? Vol. 48, No. 3.” (1998): 366-380.
- This will be used as an opener to what will be spoken about in this paper. In order for me to express how religion might be used as a “guilt tripper”, the reader must know what religion is and what religion is supposed to be used for. This will highlight how people misconstrue religion to antagonize people.
- Homosexuality and religion
- Stulberg, Ian. Thacker, Donald P. “‘EPISTEMOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND RELIGION, Vol. 51, No. 2.” (2006): 189-190.
- This article speaks about a gay man (the author) who has been victimized by people who consider themselves religious. He speaks about being treated as if he has no human rights and as if the religious people are put at a higher leverage than him. This would be useful for the movie, “But, I’m a Cheerleader”, because I would like to highlight the way Megan’s parents used their “Christian” ways to make her feel like she was out of the ordinary. They also went to the lengths of sending her to a “straightening” camp that was a bit inhumane and morally displeasing.
- Adultery and religion
- Esslemont, Chris. Bierman, Alex. “‘Marital Formation and Infidelity: An Examination of the Multiple Roles of Religious Factors. 75, No. 3 ” (2014): 463-487.
- This article speaks about a study that was done in a church about infidelity. This will be useful to the movie “Moonstruck” because the main character, Loretta, was caught cheating with her fiancé’s brother. Now, who wouldn’t feel guilty? Incorporating the scenes where Loretta cheated multiple times with her brother in law and then going to the church to “repent” would show the relationship between adultery and religion.
- Guilt and Religion
- Wilinga, Pieter. Corveleyn, Jozef. Saane, Joke van. “GUILT AND RELIGION: THE INFLUENCE OF ORTHODOX PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CATHOLIC CONCEPTIONS OF GUILT ON GUILT-Experience. 27, No. 1” (2005): 113-135.
- In “But I am a Cheerleader, guilt developed when her family (who is a Christian family) was bombarding her about her sexual orientation, which led her to denounce her true sexual orientation with the excuse “I am a Christian”. In “Moonstruck”, religious guilt hit her when she was going on a date with her brother in law, and ran into the catholic nuns on the street.
- How religion plays a part in the development of one’s character/being
- Belgium, David. “Guilt and/or Self-Esteem as Consequences of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 1” (1992): 73-85.
- In “But I am a Cheerleader, it is evident that her religion played big aspect of her life because she was use it to denounce her sexual orientation. This comes to show how religion can keep your personality in a cage, and feelings of guilt are bound to arise when you are not practicing the religion.
- Judgment of Others due to religion
- Judgment of Self due to religion
- Gunderson, Mark Paul. McCary, James Leslie. “Sexual Guilt and Religion, Vol. 28, No. 3” (1979): 353-357.
- In “But I am a Cheerleader, it is evident that her religion played big aspect of her life because she was use it to denounce her sexual orientation. This comes to show how religion can keep your personality in a cage, and feelings of guilt are bound to arise when you are not practicing the religion.
- The Bible
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