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ilm critic A.O. Scott as a good source for reading about culture and film. He is one of the most respected film critics today. Film criticism is not what you might think – a splattered tomato or a full tomato, is it awesome or does it suck. It is really about discussing the cultural meaning of film. Does that sound familiar?

The way Scott’s articles are written, however, are different than how you will write your essay. This is because he is writing a newspaper article and you are writing an academic essay. So, the conventions of your essay will be different (you have a more formal introduction and explicitly-stated thesis that ends that introduction, while newspaper writers are more conversational and often subtle with their thesis), but the central ideas you will be discussing (culture and film) are the same as critics like Scott.

After you read Scott’s article (and watch the videos within), ” (Links to an external site.)The Hunt Review: The Culture War, With Heavy Casualties” (Links to an external site.), answer the following in 2-3 sentences each 

1. The film’s plot is about liberals hunting conservatives. So does that mean it is an anti-conservative film? Is it an anti-liberal film? Or, is it attempting to do something else within the conservative vs. liberal mythology? If so, What?

2. What do you think Scott means when he writes, “There’s also a lot in the movie about how online hysteria bleeds into reality, which makes it seem at once prescient and redundant”?

3. In what way does Scott say this film is similar to Jordan Peele’s Get Out?

4. Scott says, “Rage — shared by characters on both sides, even as they direct it at each other — is what The Hunt is all about.” But he also says that, Crystal, the perceived central character, “isn’t like the others” and that she “seems to carry a different kind of anger.” What do you think is the source of her anger?

5. Two of the last three sentences of the article, really serve as Scott’s thesis: “What The Hunt expresses — as distinct from what it depicts — isn’t vengeful intolerance or self-pitying resentment, but frustration. It amounts to a protest against the hyper-politicization of everything, an attempt to reclaim popular culture as a demilitarized zone in the midst of our collective rhetorical forever war.” Remember, the conventions of a newspaper article are different than an essay; your thesis would be at the end of the introduction. Re-state Scott’s thesis in your own words, as if it were your thesis at the end of your introduction.