Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Use the questions below to organize and create your required analytical response to the
films. Please follow the prompts provided below, and provide 2‐3 sentence responses for
each.
1. What are key words that serve as anchors in the film/documentary?
2. What are key phrases and/or concepts that frame the themes covered in the
film/documentary?
3. Re‐state the underlying thesis of the film/documentary. You may use an outline to
organize the central thesis and its related parts.
4. What claims do the authors make, specifically?
5. What evidence do the authors provide to strengthen the claims?
6. What are the main ‘stand‐points’ (positions) the film is sharing?
7. Where do you position in relation to the key frames of the film?
8. What is useful and productive in this film—for your purposes as a researcher and
writer?
9. What, if anything, could the authors improve? Why? How would that change your
learning? How would that change your (and others’) bias towards their research
methods, theories, outcomes?
10. How can you utilize the research presented in this film in your ‘me‐search’? in your ‘re‐
search’?