Write a minimum 7-8 page paper which forwards the analysis of a topic of your choice: art, film, a location, a build, and whatever you find interesting. You will analyze, interpret and explicate the topic according to the criteria of one or more of the critical strategies (or lenses) including: Formalist, Semiotic, Psychoanalytic, Socio-economic, Feminist critical approaches. (You are not limited to these lenses.) The final paper will be submitted in MLA format with a works cited.

As always, your thesis should forward an arguable interpretation and/or evaluation of the text’s (remember everything is a text) value, impact, or significance according to the criteria of any of the critical strategies or “lenses” listed above. For example, in “Mock Feminism: Waiting to Exhale,” Bell Hooks uses the feminist and socio-economic lenses (as well as semiotic) to challenge the “feminist” pretense of what Bell argues is nothing more than mainstream Hollywood capitalizing on traditional sexist and racist stereotypes under the guise of “progressive politics.”