Title: Critical Film Analysis
1Critical Film Analysis
- Lesson 2 The role of movies in society
Brokeback Mountain
2Great movies change the way society thinks about
issues
- Guess Whos Coming to Dinner changed the way
people thought about interracial marriage
- Kramer vs. Kramer changed the way people thought
about women and parenting
- Brokeback Mountain changed the way people thought
about what it is to be gay
3Images of cowboys before BBM
4... and after
5How far have we come really
- The Chicago Board of Education was sued (by a
student and her grandparents) because a teacher
showed Brokeback Mountain in class.
- Link to article Classroom viewing of Brokeback
Mountain brings lawsuit published in The
Advocate May 16 2007
- The community of Austin Texas was in an
uproar when the original short story Brokeback
Mountain was included as an optional reading for
high school seniors. - Link to article Viewpoint Censorship money is
not worth it published in The Daily Texan
September 30 2005
6Social attitudes towardBrokeback Mountain
- The movie is recent so you know what the social
climate is like today
- You probably know someone who is gay and may
have heard their opinions about the movie
- Imagine what it will be like for your children to
learn about the movie in 30 or 40 years theyll
wonder what all the fuss was about
7Roger Eberts review of BBM
- Read it here
- Who are Matthew Shepard and Teena Brandon
- Ebert says The more specific a film is the
more universal. This statement is a
contradiction in terms. Do you agree or
disagree - In what ways did you relate to the characters of
Ennis and Jack