American Studies is about making connections and asking good questions, and then making an argument based on the appropriate evidence. Your essay should engage with the ideas and arguments of at least four different primary or secondary texts from class. The primary texts can include any of the films, songs, advertisements, television shows, novels, or poems that we have covered in class. Your secondary texts are any of the course readings. Your essay can cite one primary or secondary text from before the midterm. An exemplary essay will have a clearly stated argument that is developed through your examples/ evidence. (Underline your argument to be absolutely clear). Be sure to explain and analyze the connections you are making between the texts and/or course themes that you are citing. You can draw from examples discussed in lecture, section and your readings, but you are not limited to that material and, in fact, are encouraged to cite outside examples that have not been previously discussed as it will reveal your complex understanding of the materials discussed in class. In your essay, choose one cultural text and analyze the “common sense” understandings it circulates about two concepts (i.e., this can include “America,” neoliberalism, the American Dream, globalization, environmental justice, gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, etc.). The cultural text you analyze can be a film, advertisement, image, television show, material object, or song. What ideological beliefs does the cultural text uphold? What beliefs does it challenge? Does it uphold certain ideologies while simultaneously challenging others?
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