At a point of your choosing during the semester (final deadline 12/3), you will watch and respond to a film about some aspect of displacement/migration. You will write a 400-500 word response to the film using at least two concepts from the course content and/or readings. In particular, you will want to focus on how different cultures are portrayed, as well as how the film discusses and portrays processes of migration.

In your assignment, you will a) summarize the film and its premise or major argument and b) analyze the subject matter of the film using ideas and concepts from class. As you watch the film, you may want to consider the following dynamics/representations:

• Gender and gender relations
• ‘Race’ and race relations
• Socioeconomic class
• Ethnicity and cultural identity
• Sexuality and sexual orientation
• Normalcy and deviance
• Nonhuman nature (animals, specific landscapes and places) and human-nature relations
• What is represented as ‘natural’ and/or ‘unnatural’
• What capacities for action are portrayed, and how are they distributed between different actors

You can choose any documentary film that you like, but I do want it to be a “film”—that is, not a TedTalks or some other form of media. You can submit this paper at any point during the semester that works with your schedule, however, all papers must be turned in by the end of Lesson 14, on THURSDAY 12/3 at 11:59 PM. You will submit your paper on Canvas, and it will go through Turnitin. Your paper should be double-spaced, with 12-point font and 1-inch margins on all sides.