Choose a partner.

Exchange one copy of your Proposal with each other.

Take 5-7 minutes to read through your colleague’s Proposal. Ask yourself the following questions as you are reading:

1. What is your partner’s object of study (specifically)?

2. What specific scene within the film/tv show/online program is your partner going to use for their formal analysis? Why?

3. Is your partner using course terms in their pitch? If so, which ones? If not, ask them what course terms they are going to utilize. (Just saying “formal analysis” is NOT enough. They must be specific).

4. What thoughts do they provide about the bigger picture, the significance of the object within the broader world?

5. Where specifically is your partner making claims? What kind of evidence are they using to back up their claims? Is it sufficient to convince you?

6. What else could they consider as they start expanding this into a Research Paper?

Now take 5-7 minutes to exchange responses to each other’s Proposal.

1. Provide for them an oral synopsis of your written notes on their Proposal.2. Go through your individual responses to the questions posed above.3. Use the copy of your partner’s Proposal in front of you to take notes. Mark the locations in the text where they are responding to the above questions. 4. If they do not answer a question, make note of it on the Proposal and bring it up with them. If they did not talk about a specific scene, ask them to provide you with one. 5. You have the tools to do critical analysis, and so does your partner. If they have not demonstrated so in their Proposal, you need to ask them to be more specific, to demonstrate that knowledge.6. Be professional and collegial in your questions and your discussion. You are asking questions because you want their Proposal, and the work that grows out of the Proposal to be as strong as it possibly can be.

On Tuesday we will talk about Feminist Film Theory and Rear Window, so re-read the section in the textbook on Feminist Film Theory.

Come to class ready to answer the following questions:

1. In Feminist Film Theory, who looks and who is looked at?

2. Given that these “looking relations” (who looks and who is looked at) are fundamental to Hollywood filmmaking, what conclusions can we reach about Hollywood’s treatment of women and Hollywood’s gender politics?

Come to class ready to talk about the film. Be sure that you have watched the film before coming to Tuesday’s class. There is always the possibility of a pop quiz.

At the end of Tuesday’s class we will go through the Peer Review assignment. You will be matched up with a colleague for the Peer Review assignment.