First assignment
1. How does mass media and morality function combine to connect horror, mass media, adultery, and punishment in the film The Ring?
2. Follow the link below to my documentary “Wrath of Samara” and use it to help guide your analytical outline.
3. Try and include references to Marshall McLuhan, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung and the manner in which I use their ideas to critically engage The Ring. Your goal is to write a short single spaced one page-essay incorporating the themes listed above.
reference :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_(2002_film)
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Second Assignment
1. How is Western Christianity manipulated in American Supernatural Thrillers like It Follows to produce a social map of judgment and condemnation?
2. Are these types of films extensions of religion?
3. Why can’t young people have sex outside of marriage?
4. How is all this emotional maelstrom regarding sex ultimately linked to the Counterculture of the 1960s?
5. Use my documentary link below on the 1978 American Horror film Halloween as an example that connects sex, the counterculture, and sin.
Your goal is to create a one page single spaced essay incorporating the themes listed above.
class reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows
