A heroines itinerary from dependency upon the male to a position unfettered by patriarchy

A heroines itinerary from dependency upon the male to a position unfettered by patriarchy

Final Paper: Please, pick a topic from the list below for your final research paper. The paper has to have a minimum of six pages, Times New Roman 12. Since it is a research paper, you need also to consult and use the bibliographical sources that have been posted in BELOW. Final paper is due Saturday, December 31, at midnight.

Cinema as a Reflection of Society
A heroines itinerary from dependency upon the male to a position unfettered by patriarchy
The New Moral and Social Order in Jamón Jamón, Women on the Verge and All About My Mother
The Filmic Representation of Multicultural and Multiracial Spain
Constructing Alterity in Spanish Cinema
Sexual Politics: The Evolving Role of Women in Spanish Cinema
Representation of a New Age: Sexual and Racial Democracy
Representation of a Closed and Old Age: Social and Sexual Tradition
Construction of Different Identities
Color and Visual Flair in Almodóvar’s Films
Hollywood in Almodóvar’s Movies
Queering of Spanish Society in Almodóvar and Other Film Directors
Stylization and Artificiality in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Cinematic and Narrative Technique in Almodóvar’s Movies
The Role of the Mother in Spanish Cinema
Parody in the Movies of Almodóvar and Other Directors
Melodrama in Almodóvar and Other Directors
Representation of the New Spanish Society
Blurring of Boundaries and Differences in Spanish Cinema
Feminine Desire in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Use of Other Media in Almodóvar’s Cinema
The Postmodernist Onslaught in Almodóvar’s Cinema
Gender Identity as Target of Parody in Spanish Cinema
Male Representation in Spanish Cinema or the Deconstruction of Masculinity
Gender-Bending or Gender Instability in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
De/Reconstruction of Codified Myths and Institutions of Spanish Culture
Cultural and Personal Displacement in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Self-Reflexivity or Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
The Representation of Desire
The Female Gaze in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Camping and Transvestism in Almodóvar’s Cinema
Exaggeration, Pastiche and Collapse of Boundaries in Spanish Cinema
Sex and Violence in Spanish Cinema
Representation of a New Post-Francoist Cultural Esthetic
Madrid as the Space for the Reformulation of Spanish Cultural Values
The City as the Embodiment of Female Self-Affirmation and Liberation
The Imagining of a New Social and Moral Order in Spanish Cinema
Subversion of Patriarchy in Spanish Cinema
“Anything Goes’ as the Motto for Contemporary Spanish Cinema
The Carnivalesque: Strategies of Subversion in Spanish Cinema
The Subversion of Traditional Film Narrative in Almodóvar
The Objectivization of the Male Body
Gender Violence
The Racial Others and Immigration
Woman as Object in Spanish Cinema
Female Emancipation
The Civil War Discourse
Monstrosity in Spanish Cinema
Complicity with Patriarchal Discourse and Assertion Against it
Traditional Spanish Machismo
Self-consciously Constructed Cinema
Social Issues (Immigration, Domestic Violence, Drugs and aids) Cinema
Gender and Sexuality as Performance
Juxtaposition of Reality and Fantasy
Any Topic of Your Choice