movie "Cat People"

movie "Cat People" The essay is based on the movie "Cat People" and the material that's mentioned in the instruction page is the book "Monsters" . choose a side to write about ( either Irena's racial or sexual difference .. positive or negative) However, you can't write on both. one more note, I don't want you to write a summary or intro about the movie. Try to focus more on the thoughts and building ideas. three to five pages For the last several classes, we’ve focused on representations of racial and sexual difference; in fact, monsters as representations of difference is a central part of the study of horror/supematural literature and film (see. for example, The Dread of Diflerence, ed. Barry Keith Grant). Jacques Toumeur’s Cat People (1942) is a particularly good example of this: in many ways the plot centers around the confusion and dread a foreign woman causes in “normal” American society. The film presents us with two ways of viewing Irena‘s monstrosity: either a “negative” representation of her racial and sexual difference as “monstrous” and destructive, or a “positive” representation of Irena (and her difference) as the victim of an oppressive society that cannot bear anything “abnormal.” Picking either Irena’s racial or sexual difference, discuss whether Cat People presents a negative or positive portrayal of her difference. Produce a thesis-based, thoughtful well-constructed essay to support your argument. You must also use at least onutside text-for example, Natalie Wilson’s “Civilized Vampires Versus Savage erewolves”-in addition to the movie “Cat People.” Do not simply rely on one quote to give surface acknowledgement but actually discuss the text. Avoid personal experience (using stories from your life or the lives of your friends or family) and personal reference (telling us “I think” or “In my opinion”); focus instead on the ideas of the text. but make sure that you tell us more than just what happens in the movie. In other words, it is important that a paraphrase of the author’s ideas or the movie’s narrative does not stand in for your own thoughts. You must incorporate at least one (preferably more) quotation from the material, using proper MLA in-text citation, as well as a Works Cited page at the end of your paper. The Works Cited page does not count towards your page count, but I will not accept a paper without one. Finally, remember to format your paper in the MLA style, as outlined in the course syllabus and in the Rules for Writers, and to staple your first draft with peer-response comments to the final draft you turn in. NO PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT A PEER-RESPONSE DRAFT ATTACHED. Thus a paper that is less than three full pages will receive an F. A paper missing a peeroresponse draft will receive an F. A paper missing a Works Cited page, at least one properly-cited quotation, or even a mention of the text. will receive an F. A paper with margins that are larger than 1” will receive, at best, a C. Finally, a paper that does not adequately incorporate and discuss text will not be considered to have adequately responded to the assignment. and could receive a grade as low as a C, D, or even F.