Lit 160: Film Extra Credit

Extra Credit: Pick a film from this list and write a page and a half analysis. Discuss how it relates to some of the issues we’ve been talking about in class. Don’t choose to write about a film you’ve seen repeatedly. This is due before Thanksgiving.

Watermelon Man: Melvin van Peoples 1970
Cotton Comes to Harlem: Ossie Davis 1970
Sweet Sweetback’s Badd Asss Song: Melvin van Peoples 1971
Shaft: Gordon Parks 1971
Superfly: Gordon Parks Jr. 1972
She’s Gotta Have It: Spike Lee 1986
School Days: Spike Lee 1988
Hollywood Shuffle: Robert Townsend 1987
Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee 1989
Boyz in the Hood: John Singleton 1991
Daughters of the Dust: Julie Dash 1991
Higher Learning: John Singleton 1995
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored: Tim Reid 1995
Rosewood: John Singleton, 1997
Compensation: Zeinabu Irene Davis 2000
Love and Basketball : Gina Prince-Bythewood 2000
D.E.B.S: Angela Robinson 2004
LadyLike: Safiya Songhai 2006
For Colored Girls: Tyler Perry 2010