may use as many essays from the texts as you want

Your essay should be between 1500 and 2000 words.
You must include a Works Cited page, NOT an Annotated Bibliography.
Your Works Cited page does not contribute to your word count.
You must cite at least five secondary sources, including at least three scholarly articles (peer-reviewed).
You may use as many essays from the texts as you want, but you may only count one of them toward
your five-source minimum.
You may use dictionaries or encyclopedias (including Wikipedia), but they are probably unnecessary and
they do not count as part of your five sources.
Conduct research on the representation of race, gender, sexual orientation, and/or ethnicity in
American culture, particularly in movies or television.
Your essay should pursue some of the following questions, though not all of them will be relevant, and
many more will present themselves as you conduct your research:
How do these images and representations affect the mainstream American perceptions of race,
gender, sexual orientation, or culture?
What effects do these representations have on the cultures and groups being represented?
Your primary sources can be one of the following:
1. An analysis of a single movie (e.g. representations of sexual identity in Brokeback Mountain)
2. A comparison of no more than two movies. (e.g. aliens as stand-ins for minorities in science
fiction)
3. An analysis of a television series, focusing on between one and three episodes. (e.g.
representations of socioeconomic status in Orange is the New Black)