1. Choose a publication to submit your assignment. *Note: You are not going to actually submit this piece of writing.
2. Pretend Dr. Mason is the editor, and answer these questions in your pitch:
a) What is the media you are analysing? (2)
b) What is your argument? (3)
c) What piece of evidence will the readers/viewers find most persuasive? (3)
d) What is the significance of this analysis (i.e. why should I publish it?) (2)
Your pitch should resemble the following example (from 2019):
Dear Editor of Bitch Magazine,
The recent portrayal of dis/ability in horror films such a Bird Box and A Quiet Place have centered on people with disabilities most likely to survive monsters and unknown global terrors. Sandra Bullock blocked her ability to see in order to survive, while John Krasinski and Emily Blunt learned ASL to ‘keep quiet.’ In both films, people with hearing and vision impairment would have been those with the right skills to survive. People who use ASL to communicate, and those who regularly move around the world without sight, would have easily survived both these horrors. And yet, there are very few people with disabilities represented in the film. In each case, able-bodied people are playing characters that should have been played by actors with disabilities. As the horror genre seems to be taking impairment seriously in this contemporary moment, my media analysis of a Bird Box and A Quiet Place will offer a much-needed critical disability analysis to popular conversations about these films, especially as a sequel to A Quiet Place is in the works. (322 words)
