Trying to find a good movie (Or possibly TV series) to do a research paper on, I have to use two "real" scholarly articles as sources... any good ideas?

2/28/2006 11:57:06 AM

possible paper topics:

Why are grundles misunderstood?

Can anything stop the smooze?

2/28/2006 12:14:45 PM

i'm sure you could find stuff on several movies/tv shows. by no means have i researched anything, but i'm willing to bet that these have some articles written on them:

tv show:
lost

movies:
lord of the rings
matrix

2/28/2006 12:20:06 PM

buffy the vampire slayer has a good chunk of academic work that you can use

2/28/2006 12:23:51 PM

what class is this for?

2/28/2006 12:26:36 PM

"All the Kings Men" --- Plenty of scholarly stuff on the Watergate scandal. I don;t know what class it is for but you can't help but find an exorbitant amount of info on this

2/28/2006 12:27:13 PM

"Inherit the Wind"

-creationism vs. evolution debate

2/28/2006 12:31:11 PM

Life of David Gale

2/28/2006 12:32:59 PM

you write a paper on almost any film

2/28/2006 12:37:31 PM

Quote :

" tv show: lost"

who in the fuck?

x-files....early in the series, sometimes entire episodes are just scully and moulder talking about weird shit

2/28/2006 12:38:17 PM

2/28/2006 1:08:45 PM

CLEARLY THE CORRECT ANSWER WAS "OVER THE TOP"

2/28/2006 1:09:58 PM

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""All the Kings Men" --- Plenty of scholarly stuff on the Watergate scandal. I don;t know what class it is for but you can't help but find an exorbitant amount of info on this"

Do you mean, All The President's Men?

2/28/2006 1:30:17 PM

do you mean movies that contain scholarly debate or movies that have scholarly debate going on in reference to them?

2/28/2006 1:30:41 PM

Yeah, woops... All the Kings Men is a book by Penn Warren... i always get them confused

2/28/2006 1:54:36 PM

Billy Madison has a debate near the end

2/28/2006 2:20:34 PM

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"buffy the vampire slayer has a good chunk of academic work that you can use"

yeah, was gonna say the same thing. There are hundreds of scholarly articles and essays and dozens of books about it.
I read a book of Buffy essays recently, and a lot of them also cite X-Files and Twin Peaks as other notable TV shows with lots of academic research.

2/28/2006 3:02:33 PM

Scholars dont write movies

2/28/2006 3:17:46 PM

Hey, a troll.

2/28/2006 3:24:17 PM

2/28/2006 4:32:55 PM

Million Dollar Baby. ("Pull plug" on vegetable people stuff)

Runaway Jury. (gun laws/rights, court bribery and shit)

The People vs. Larry Flynt. (free speech debates)

[Edited on February 28, 2006 at 5:14 PM. Reason : hjfsd]

2/28/2006 4:56:27 PM

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"CLEARLY THE CORRECT ANSWER WAS "OVER THE TOP""

god, when stallone turns his hat backwards and pounds his elbow on the pad, that shit still gets me FIRED UP

2/28/2006 4:58:22 PM

^^ More like What a Bleeping Awful Movie!

2/28/2006 4:58:43 PM

which?

2/28/2006 4:59:03 PM

but there's plenty of shit to debate about

2/28/2006 5:07:37 PM

Blade Runner (sci-fi noir, what does it mean to be human, etc)
Do the Right Thing (race)
Momento (narrative theory)


[Edited on February 28, 2006 at 5:13 PM. Reason : Amelie, Godfather, The Graduate (the whole glass/ water motif)]

2/28/2006 5:07:50 PM

oh yeah, you can also do anything by Hitchcock and Spike Lee (just to name two of many options) to discuss auteur theory/ criticism

[Edited on February 28, 2006 at 5:11 PM. Reason : Baz Luhrman's Red Curtain series (is it a trilogy?)]

[Edited on February 28, 2006 at 5:13 PM. Reason : Quentin Tarantino is appropriate here too]

2/28/2006 5:09:28 PM

im offended no one agreed with me. does no one care about the grundles? how about the bad parenting exhibited in this movie...children are learning poor parenting skills for later in their lives!!!

2/28/2006 5:47:19 PM

http://slayage.tv

2/28/2006 6:00:06 PM

Hurricane

2/28/2006 8:02:53 PM

All the blacksploitation movies. There are plenty of scholarly articles on that shit.

2/28/2006 8:32:26 PM

^"sweet sweet back's badass song" is especially awesome, and as it kicked off the genre, sure to have loads of scholarly criticism...

2/28/2006 8:48:44 PM

that movie everyone says is related to heart of darkness

2/28/2006 9:58:22 PM

Journal of American Culture or Journal of Popular Culture are pretty good places to start, or just do an e-journal search for 'culture' journals. Also if you search amazon for most shows there's at least one "Reading the Simpsons" etc. book.

And there's a series of books called "New Critical Idiom" that are critical theory on a bunch of different subjects, that are really good. The "Narrative" one has a good section on narrative in Film which might be a good start, and they have them on several genres like comedy/sci-fi etc, that once you narrow down to a film would be good for background. They're good about being accessible/brief/ but without being dumbed down

2/28/2006 10:13:21 PM

truck turner

2/28/2006 11:53:29 PM

Primer.
Good Night and Good Luck.
Motorcycle Diaries.

3/1/2006 12:30:34 AM

Robocop
First Blood
the Warriors

3/1/2006 12:33:04 AM

Scent of a Woman

3/1/2006 1:22:57 AM

THAT IS NOT SCHOLARLY DEBATE. THAT IS MINDLESS DRIVEL.

3/1/2006 8:11:09 AM

Where in fact is the dude's car?

3/1/2006 9:38:28 AM