Girlhood and boyhood
“Using 2 films from Week 10: Girlhood & Coming-of-Age (Cuties, Mosquita y Mari, and/or Beans) and 2 films from Week 11: Queer Masculinity & Coming-of-Age in Film (Funny Boy, We the Animals, and Moonlight)”
How can “girlhood” and “boyhood” be defined or not defined while examining the films?
What do the films teach us about gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, place/geographic location, class through examining childhood and adolescence?
Using Cuties, Beans, Funny boy, and we the animals
Some Links:
https://www.vox.com/culture/21431237/cuties-cancel-netflix-controversy-explained
https://loudandclearreviews.com/beans-miami-film-festival-review/
https://www.thewrap.com/beans-film-review-tracey-deer-kiawentiio-indigenous-mohawk-oka-crisis/
https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/12/09/funny-boy-review
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/16/946334919/in-funny-boy-a-young-sri-lankan-gay-man-comes-of-age-as-ethnic-tensions-explode
https://www.out.com/entertainment/2018/8/01/how-be-man-unpacking-queer-coming-age-film-we-animals
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/we-the-animals-explores-a-queer-childs-rejection_b_5b7ee7c5e4b03067348d99ed
Sample Solution