Discuss and analyze the political implications of a cultural representation in a novel, film, television show*, poem, song, music video, cartoon, painting or other artwork of your choosing.

You will choose one of the following approaches to your paper:

1)Discuss and analyze the political implications of a cultural representation in a novel, film, television show*, poem, song, music video, cartoon, painting or other artwork of your choosing.
(If you choose this option, you will consider our discussions on the novels, poems, and music videos we have analyzed in class and bring these methods of analysis to a new text of your choosing. You might make an argument about how the cultural representation you choose reinforces a particular political narrative, or takes an implicit stand on a political issue. You might analyze the political implications of the use of language or consider how the representation in question writes back to previous representations. The paper will depend on close reading of the piece of art itself. Keep in mind that your analysis can be a critique.)

2)Make an analytical argument about a political controversy (past or recent) surrounding a cultural product (novel, film, song, music video, cartoon, statue or literary translation) or media representation.
If you choose this option, your analysis will focus on describing the political context surrounding the event or controversy rather than a close reading of the text itself. You will make an argument about how and why the particular cultural product became the center of the political controversy under question.

Formatting Guidelines:

Your final paper should be a total of 5-7 pages of word-processed, double-spaced text. Please use Times New Roman, 12 pt. font and 1 inch margins.
Give your essay a title that relates to the focus of your argument
Include parenthetical citations for all references (whether direct quotations or paraphrases) and a formal Works Cited Page in MLA or APA format

((For either essay approach, in order to help establish the context of your discussion and support your argument, you must use at least two secondary (scholarly) sources; these secondary sources may include both course readings and outside material. You may choose to include more than two scholarly sources.))

I have attached a rough idea of the paper so far attached below. Please do research and use 2 scholarly sources.

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