Purdue University Film Portrays Blackness and Race Relations Discussion

The Research Paper assignment is to develop and pursue your own line of inquiry by embarking on an extended investigation into the film “Fences”. Your analysis of this film will be informed and complicated by the work of academic scholarly sources you will locate through your research. You may also include research into the social-historical context in which the film was set. The end product will be a thoughtful, critical, and persuasive thesis-driven paper about the film that is supported and/or complicated by secondary sources.

• 4-page research-based essay (can be longer, but no shorter)
• 1 primary source (the literature-based film)
• 3 secondary sources (2 of which must be scholarly/peer reviewed)
• MLA-style format for both in-text citations and a final Works Cited.P
  • Please talk about the variety of topics that the films deals with for example: alcoholism, poverty, infidelity, toxic masculinity, domestic abuse, discrimination, family legacies.
  • If you need to watch the movie let me know and I will send you the money.

Requirements: 4 pages