Blog Response #6: "The Social Network" and the Marxist/Feminist Critical Approaches

For this next exploration of critical approaches, we will be exploring multiple perspectives, approaches, and texts in order to give you more options to how you approach the texts, which texts you approach, and from what angle you approach the texts. For this assignment, you will be asked to complete one blog post (due 1/2/2012 after break) that addresses one of the new critical approaches (Feminist, Marxist) and one of the old critical approaches (Philosophical/Moral, Psychological) in conjunction with the film or short stories you choose to read. Below is a list of texts you may choose to take on. We will be showing “The Social Network” in class over the next few days. If you choose to read short stories from Characters In Conflict, You will need to read at least 2 of the three stories. Please write a 3-5 paragraph blog response regarding these approaches and texts.

Text Choices:

“Harrison Bergeron” Marxist
“The Birds” Feminist
“The Most Dangerous Game” Marxist
“The Social Network” Marxist/Feminist