Write a minimum 5-6 page paper which forwards the analysis of any television show. You will analyze, interpret and explicate the television show according to the criteria of one or more of the critical strategies (or lenses) including: Formalist, Semiotic, Psychoanalytic, Socio-economic, Feminist critical approaches. (You are not limited to these lenses.)  The final paper will be submitted in MLA format with a works cited.

As always, your thesis should forward an arguable interpretation and/or evaluation of the text’s value, impact, or significance according to the criteria of any of the critical strategies or lenses listed above.  For example, in Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale, Bell Hooks uses the feminist and socio-economic lenses (as well as semiotic) to challenge the feminist pretense of what Bell argues is nothing more than mainstream Hollywood capitalizing on traditional sexist and racist stereotypes under the guise of progressive politics.

Requirements:

Your essay should:

    Have a compelling, original title.
    Forward a thesis that asserts an arguable claim about the text/s based on any of the critical strategies (or lenses) listed above as its criteria.
    Be 5-6 pages in length, submitted in MLA format with in-text citations and a separate Works Cited page.
    You will need two outside sources.

Here are the basics:

MLA format
5-7 pages, double spaced NOT INCLUDING THE WORKS CITED PAGE
Works Cited Page & In-text citations
Writers conference between you and me required
Topic – American Literature or American History
4 minimum sources; 6 maximum sources. NO EXCEPTIONS!
3 main points
No more than 8 paragraphs: introduction, 1-2 body paragraphs for each main point, conclusion.

It must be the right size topic for 5-7 pages. Do not make it too general; for example, the American Revolution would be too big of a topic for 5-7 pages.

Assignment 2: Make sure your topic is argumentative. What I mean is make sure that when you think about this topic, you can argue a specific side of it with someone who disagrees. For example: I DO NOT want a report on the causes of the Salem Witch Trials. What I want is a paper that argues that the time period of the Salem Witch Trials was one of the most explosive/puzzling/dark etc. time of the seventeenth century. See what I did there?