Response Essays (500-700 words; minimum 2 double-spaced sides) Each response must contain at least two quotes from either the Cook textbook and/or a Blackboard reading. Your response should be personal, thoughtful, analytical, include close textual analysis of a scene or sequence and provide evidence that youve done the reading and thought about the film. What should be included in the paper: Identify three specific ways in which gender stereotypes are challenged yet paradoxically affirmed in His Girl Friday. What role do the dialogue and humor play in this process? How does the film represent the world of work and field of journalism? How does His Girl Friday make us never forget Hildys femininity? How does the film negotiate gender and represent what Tom Powers calls one of the major paradoxes of American narrative cinema. How does the film represent the professional workspace and field of journalism? How does parody defuse the films violent themes execution at the start and the strike at the end? I will attach the Cook textbook and Blackboard reading.Show more
