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UCI Political Issues Gender Sexuality & Representation African American Cinema Essay

 

*Attempt only two questions.

*Question # 1, Section A, is compulsory.
*Choose one more question from Section B.
*Keep your answers clear, concise and analytical.
*Address your responses to the specific demands of each question.
*Limit your answers to 4 (double-spaced, 12-pitch font) pages per question.
*Illustrate your answers with pertinent references, and cite key sources consulted.
*No haphazard submission of papers or excuses for late papers would be accepted.
*Your answer script must include the questions chosen, your name, and be submitted in PDF.

QUESTIONS:

SECTION A

1) Referencing readings and films, critically explore the interactions between cultural, social, ideological, and political issues around gender, sexuality and representation in African Cinema.

SECTION B

2) Discuss how the relationship between gender, power, prospects of personal, cultural and social transformations, shape the themes of agency in Mother of George and liberation in Flame.

3) Examine, with subtleties, the representation of non-normative sexualities in Karmen Gei and Dakan, noting each film’s unique narrative strands, aesthetic dynamics, and thematic trajectories.

4) Analyze how childhood, memory, trauma, culture, society and anxieties constitute critical points of engagement for exploring the volatile spheres of masculinities in Man of Ashes.