FILMS WITH SEXUALITY THEMES
EXTRA CREDIT
View one of the following movies. Write a 1 ½ - 2-page reaction paper. Include:
**Your reaction to the movie, including an analysis of the major themes.
**How does the movie tie into the course content we have been studying?
Movies to choose from (All are available from Netflix) OR Submit Your Own Choice for Approval:
Boys Don’t Cry (With Hilary Swank, about a FTM transgendered person)
Transamerica (with Felicity Huffman About a transgendered MTF person)
Kinsey (With Liam Neeson, Life of Alfred Kinsey)
Brokeback Mountain (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenheal, Story of two male cowboys who fall in love)
The Laramie Project – Reactions to the hate-crime murder of gay college student Matthew Shepherd
XXY (Argentine Film about an intersexed adolescent. In Spanish with subtitles, available from Netflix)
Juno (Teen Pregnancy)
Ma Vie en Rose (French with Subtitles. About a gender-nonconformist child)
The Education of Shelby Knox (A documentary about Abstinence-Only Sex Education in Texas)
Philadelphia Story (Older film with Tom Hanks, about HIV/AIDS)
Cider House Rules (with Charlize Theron and Toby Maguire, About abortion before it was legal)
Milk (With Sean Penn, Life of Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk)
Inside Deep Throat (Documentary about making of X-rated movie Deep Throat)
People vs Larry Flint (with Woody Harelson - about Hustler Magazine owner Larry Flint’s supreme court battle about pornography and free speech)
The Accused (Older film with Jodie Foster, based on true story of a gang rape victim)
If these Walls Could Talk (With Demi Moore, Cher, Sissy Spacek – about Abortion rights movement)
If these Walls Could Talk 2 (with Vanessa Redgrave – About 3 generations of Lesbian Couples)
Born into Brothels - documentary set in India, that follows lives of children born to prostitutes
American Pie (About Adolescent Sexuality, attitudes about virginity)
4 months, 3 weeks, 2 day (About unplanned pregnancy and abortion in Romania)
Dangerous Beauty (About a Courtesan Sex Worker in 16th century Venice)
The Greatest Silence – Rape in the Congo (2008 Documentary about Rape as a tactic of war in the African Congo)
The Reader (Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes – about a sexual relationship between a youth and an older woman)