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WORTH: 10 points DUE: Tuesday, March 17 at Class time LENGTH: About 3-4 pages (800-1,000 words) CAUTION: This video is **NOT** for the squeamish. It containts explicit and graphic humor that might be offensive to some, if not most, people. Do this exercise *ONLY* if you are not easily offended. This exercise is more complicated that it looks. View the movie THE ARISTOCRATS. ((NOTE: CAUTION - this movie is about "the filthiest joke in the world.") If you are easily offended, this might not be for you. REPEAT: FOREWARNED!! IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED, SKIP THIS Your task is to write a SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS about the movie and apply it to some aspect of the class. This IS NOT an opinion paper or a movie review. It's an analytic project. 1. Summarize what the movie is about 2. Is it really about a "dirty joke?" 3. What makes the joke funny? 4. The movie's subtext isn't about jokes, but about something else. What is that "something else?" (that is, what do you learn about culture, status, bonding, "rites of passage" -- in short, what SOCIOLOGICAL insights can you take from the movie if you were going to lecture in corrections on it? Your grade will depend on your ability to apply the sociological imagination. NOTE - YOU MUST OBVIOUSLY EXPLAIN THE PREMISES OF THE THEORY IN ORDER TO APPLY IT! This is an ESSAY, not a short-answer response to the four points to cover.
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