This assignment is an exercise in applying methods for measuring gender bias in popular culture. You will be required to watch and analyze episodes from different television programs
To do
- Watch Anita Sarkeesian discuss the Bechdel Test.
- Read Walt Hickey, Ella Koeze, Rachael Dottle and Gus Wezerek’s The next Bechdel Test.
- Pick multiple television shows to watch. Before you watch them, make a guess about whether each will pass the Bechdel test.
- Watch and analyze an episode from each of the television programs. While watching, take notes on anything else meaningful you observe related to the sociological study of gender.
- Write up your findings in a brief research report
- Rubric
- Research
- Study four or more episodes, including at least one comparison. For example, looking across seasons or comparing TV show genres.
- Analysis
- Employ the perspective of three or more tests, including the Bechdel and one of your own creation.
- Report
- Include summary paragraph as introduction.
- Describe your hypothesis, data and methods of analysis.
- Describe what you found.
- Present findings in a summary table or figure.
- Evaluate your findings.
- Evaluate your methodology.
- Make clear connection to more than one course concept, for instance, including analysis of how stereotypes become a part of mainstream culture or discussing how these tests do at representing intersectionality.
- 750 word minimum
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