Catron notes 36 questions you can ask to “fall in love”
(really, build a closer connection) with another person. Click the link above and go through the
activity with a buddy (friend, relative, significant other, etc.) and reflect
on that experience: what surprised you about this activity? How does your
experience mesh with or differ from Catron’s?
Do you feel differently about that person? In what ways?
OR
Choose one of the music videos we did not get to talk about
in class today. Answer one of the following question-strands:
1. How the video uses narrative? What narrative is being constructed, in what ways?
2. What role does gender play in our reception of this video? How are masculine or feminine expectations/behaviors communicated? What are these expectations? What assumptions does the video engage or destabilize with regards to gender?
3. What are some of the ways this video exposes some of the potential problems (either implicit or explicit) in romance narratives?
1. How the video uses narrative? What narrative is being constructed, in what ways?
2. What role does gender play in our reception of this video? How are masculine or feminine expectations/behaviors communicated? What are these expectations? What assumptions does the video engage or destabilize with regards to gender?
3. What are some of the ways this video exposes some of the potential problems (either implicit or explicit) in romance narratives?
Nobody Needs to Know (Last 5 Years,
on Netflix), Try, Girl, You Don’t Need Makeup,
Stuck Like Glue, The One That Got Away, Gaston, Expectations vs. Reality (500
Days of Summer)
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