You can download here the slideshow of our next topic. For next week you have to choose 1 of the 7 subjects below to be presented individually for mid-jannuary. You have to work on it by yourself at home, not in class... I lend books and dvd's
Those who won't work on one of this topics have to focus on many aspects of Stanley Kubrick's 1957 masterpiece we watch in class : Paths of glory.
Presentation topics :
Topic #1 :
Questions : What are the plots of those cartoons ? How do they present the USA's enemies to the public ? What are the aims of such cartoons ?
Topic #2 :
Jewish genocide during WW2 according to a comic book from Art Spiegelman
:
Maus,
1986
Questions : What is the plot of each volume ? How do they render the life in occupied Poland and into the concentration
camps ? What do you think about the author's choice to draw mice, cats and pigs ?
Topic # 3
The Atomic Bomb upon Hiroshima according to "mangaka""
Keiji
Nakazawa
in Barefoot
Gen,
1976
Questions : What is the plot of each volume of Barefoot Gen ? What about the Japanese society and the bombing day depicted in volume 1 ? How is depicted Hiroshima and the living conditions the day after ?
Topic #4
The cold war and nuclear threat in Dr Strangelove from
director Stanley Kubrick, 1963
Questions : What is the movie's plot ? How are depicted relationships between the USA and the USSR ? What do you think about the author's aim and his choice to make a comedy ?
Topic #5
The war in Vietnam according to Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now,
1979
Questions : What is the movie's plot ? Why can we say this movie is built as a symbolic trip to hell ? What is the author's aim, doing so ?
Topic #6
The post Cold War conflicts according to Andrew Niccol
movie Lord
of War, 2006
Questions : What is the movie's plot ? Where most the weapons sold by Youri Orlov comes from ? Why ? Why can he do such things with impunity ?
Topic #7
The war against Al Qaeda and the hunt for Ben Laden in Zero Dark Thirty from
Katrin
Bigelow, 2012
Questions : What is the movie's plot ? Why do you think the movie was controversial about the way key informations were got ? What's the interest of the assault scene ?
I
don’t want you to make a ppt
presentation !
If needded,
you will only use the board to show, and comment key documents of your work.
You'll only need your notes to present the movie or the book you explored.