I think the disney one in the last line of instruction can be helpful? ” How disney film in 2010 deceipt gender or feminism?”

First, the assignment asks you to talk about a movement or trend in pop culture; unlike your Object Analysis, you are not meant to focus on one piece of pop culture media. I suppose you could do the influence of The Breakfast Club on more contemporary teen films, either in terms of plot or character archetypes (the use of “Don’t You Forget About Me” and the film itself in the first Pitch Perfect film, for example, would be one specific reference), but I didn’t really suggest that because there’s a high level of difficulty for the writing and for finding useful sources. This is why I suggested focusing on teen films in a specific period.

Second, the approach you were taking was impossible to prove in a paper like this. You weren’t proposing a research paper on the influence of The Breakfast Club on other films; you were proposing a think piece about the resonance of the film with teenagers in 2021. Which…how do you prove that? How do you find scholarly sources? Why is this an interesting topic? It’s not surprising to me that you can find reasons why a film written about teenagers in the mid-1980s might still have relevance for teenagers in any time period. That’s not a strong thesis. There are versions of this paper that might be really strong, but the difficulty level is very high (far exceeding the expectations of this course) and your proposal was not nuanced or complex enough to suggest it would achieve that level of thoughtfulness.

Your new topic proposals have similar issues. You mention 2000s romantic comedies with no further clarification. You need a topic question to ask about these films. This course is about the way pop culture tells stories about the world. In this instance, you would want to be critical of how 2000s romantic comedies explore some combination of love, relationships, gender, or sexuality. You also ask about Disney princesses. It’s a good topic, but again: how can you prove whether or not these films have “a positive or negative impact on young girls”? Which films? The ones made at midcentury? Or the ones made 70 years later? I think the right topic question is not about the impact, but about presentation: “How do Disney films in the 2010s depict gender” or femininity or whatever.

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