Movie analysis
Choose one of the following two documentaries to watch & talk about it:
1. Final Offer. 1985. Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson & Robert Collison. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada. Length: 1:18:00. Available at: https://www.nfb.ca/film/final_offer/
2. Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed. 1979. Directed by Donald Brittain. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada. Length: 0:58:00. Available at: https://www.nfb.ca/film/paperland/
Draw upon three sources from the following six to explain what is happening in your selected documentary.
Source 1: – Mills, C. Wright. 2000 [1959]. “The Promise” [excerpt]. Pp. 3-11 in The Sociological Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press. link: https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02…
– McGreal, Chris. 2017. “Don’t Blame Addicts for America’s Opioid Crisis: Here are the Real Culprits.” The Guardian, August 13. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug…
Source 2: – Durkheim, Emile. 1982 [1895]. “What is a Social Fact?” Pp. 50-59 in The Rules of Sociological Method. New York: The Free Press. link: https://monoskop.org/images/1/1e/Durkheim_Emile_Th…
– Yong, Ed. 2021. “The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic is Shifting.” The Atlantic,
June 9. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06…
Source 3: – Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. 1952 [1848]. “Bourgeoisie and Proletarians.” Pp. 419-425 in Capital; Manifesto of the Communist Party. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. link: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi…
– Berman, Marshall. 1988. “The Melting Vision and Its Dialectic.” Pp. 90-98 in All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: Penguin. link: https://langurbansociology.files.wordpress.com/201…
– Césaire, Aimé. 2000 [1951]. Discourse on Colonialism, pp. 74-78. New York: Monthly Review Press. link: https://libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g…
Source 4: – Weber, Max. 1997 [1922]. “Definitions of Sociology and Social Action.” Pp 157-164 in Classical Sociological Theory: A Reader, Ian McIntosh, ed. New York: New York University Press. link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&so…
– Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 2003. “The Commercial Spirit of Intimate Life and the Abduction of Feminism: Signs from Women’s Advice Books” [excerpt]. Pp. 13-24 in The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work.Berkeley: University of California Press. link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&so…
Source 5: – Ritzer, George. 1983. “The ‘McDonaldization’ of Society.” The Journal of American Culture, 6(1): 100-107. Link: http://users.uoa.gr/~cdokou/RitzerMcDonaldization….
– Graeber, David. 2018. “What is a Bullshit Job?” Pp. 1-26 in Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Source 6: – Sennett, Richard. 2012. “Inequality: Imposed and Absorbed in Childhood.” Pp. 133-147 in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation. New Haven: Yale University Press.
– Lareau, Annette. 2003. “Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth” [excerpt]. Pp. 1-8 in Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Please answer based on scenes from the movie chosen and not general answers. Also provide a thorough explanation.
At least 750 words, dont exceed 1000 words
