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Module Four Discussion Thread III

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Q Follow the directions and fill in the theory chart for the film you selected in Module Four Discussion Thread Part I. After you have posted your filled in theory chart, read through some of your classmates' charts. Post a thoughtful response to one of your classmate's theory chart by addressing the following: How well do you think your classmate provided examples/illustrations of their three selected theories? What's the best example they gave in their chart and why do you think so? What do you still want to know more about that you feel your classmate hasn't yet addressed/answered? Critical Theory: Read/analyze one text/film from 3 different theoretical perspectives. Please fill out as much of the chart as you can for 3 of the theories in the table. Apply the 3 critical lenses to read/analyze the same film.

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New Historicism/ Cultural Studies Psychoanalytic Structuralism/ Semiotics Post-Structuralism/ Deconstruction Post-Colonial Criticism Marxist Gender/Queer Studies Site specific textual scenes/elements that support this kind of read In terms of Culture, the film is successful in portraying the atypical culture of the protagonists. Nyles is a typical freewheeling man and Sarah is a reserved yet down on luck woman. Both these characters lie on the opposite poles. The two people getting married choosing a getaway to get married signifies yet another culture stereotype associated with Californians. Nyles being asked how his day is going by an attendant to whom he replies that “yesterday-today-tomorrow” are all the same. Similarly Sarah is seen replying – “the day is still young, ask me later” signifying their conscious minds anticipating the time loop to play its trick, a trick that they know is likely to endanger them, a fact that remains in their unconscious. Nyles acknowledges having consensual intercourse with Jeremy, a groomsman in a casual manner without any element of shame or stigma attached to it. This attributes to the fluid nature of his sexuality.