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(Elma Arslan)

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For my paper I would like to analyze the movie "The Glass Castle". In one of our readings it was said that pride is often an issue when it comes to poor people. For this reason I would like to focus on how pride affects the family in this movie. Additionally, I would like to analyze the family conflicts between Rex and Jeanette (father and daughter - different social status).

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American Poverty Photographs by Joakim Eskildsen

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American Poverty Photographs by Joakim Eskildsen

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I'd like to analyze the photographs by Joakim Eskildsen (https://time.com/3782964/below-the-line-portraits-of-american-poverty/) concerning the topic of American poverty.

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Below The Line: Portraits of American Poverty

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Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen traveled to five states to document the growing crisis. His photographs appear in the new issue of TIME.

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For the seminar project we would like to analyze the movie Precious (2009).

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I would like to analyze some parts of Mark Laita's "Soft White Underbelly" video series on Youtube. The project, which consists of interviewing America's poorest people (from homeless people, mentally ill, prostitutes, to drug addicts), combines different visual features that could be interesting to analyze. More specifically I'm fascinated by the use of black and white photography (portraits and full body), which the author uses as a tool to get a deeper insight into the psychology of the different characters.

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At this point I find it quite hard to decide which of the two movies I want to write about in my paper.
In "The Florida Project" I might focus on the childhood experience of Moonee, the daughter of the protagonist.
In "Wendy and Lucy" analyzing the discrepancy between your inner moral compass and how or through what one might deviate from these personal guidelines might be interesting.

Lisa Wilding

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I see myself as a big Ken Loach fan and his social realism in movies is in my opinion exceptional.
I would like to analyze the movie Sorry We Missed You that in its core criticizes the gig economy that is blooming at the time. not only in Europe but also in America (so this would be my connection with the USA since Loach is English).

It is interesting also from a sensory point of view. Very little music, interesting and "lonely" scenes.
Of course, I would like to do an analysis of poverty representation in the plot - people who work and are still unable to live a decent life, and visual analysis.

Dora Lenart

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I would like to analyze the content, character configuration and cinematography of the movie The Platform, directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, for my paper. I plan to analyze the placement of characters, each representative of certain human traits or social ideologies (e.g. greed, altruism, idealism, communism) into the obscure setting of a vertical shaft, where each level correlates with a specific social position with highly limited upward mobility.

Even though poverty is not the sole focus of the film and the incorporated critiques tackle problems in a more general sense (instead of focusing on a particular location), I still think that it would be relevant for the contents and aims of this course. What I imagine to be challenging about this idea is the relative novelty of the movie, resulting in a lack of literature.

I would be happy to hear your thoughts about this idea, if you want to share them with me :)

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I would like to create a video essay analyzing the depiction of poverty in "The Hunger Games". Since the fictional world of Panem is based on a dystopic version of America and the movie was produced in Hollywood I would argue that the focus is still on poverty in America.

I am personally very much interested in the tools filmmakers used to depict poverty (e.g. colors, costumes, ...)

(Adrian Schmeiser)

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Martina Braunegger - Poverty and Mental Health in "Joker"

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Martina Braunegger - Poverty and Mental Health in "Joker"

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This is just a first thought but for my paper, I would really like to work on Todd Phillips' "Joker".

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The other idea I have is to analyze motifs of poverty in the album "The Melodic Blue," Baby Keem's first studio album. I don't know if I would to pick a specific music video (e.g. the still from the song Family Ties above, in which Baby Keem juxtaposes extreme wealth with extreme poverty, layering image over image of typical scenes from the hood - corner stores, parking lot drug deals, gang fights - under scenes of ostentacious wealth, e.g. ballet dancers in sculpture gardens). I could also anaylze how the album cover depicts Keem's rise out of poverty and what this conveys about gaining sudden material success, especially in relation to processing trauma related to life in the projects.

The album cover for The Melodic Blue can be found here: https://cdn.themedizine.com/2021/09/baby-keem-the-melodic-blue-scaled-e1631295898985-2048x1059.jpg

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The Pursuit of Happyness (Lisa Johanna Paul)

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The Pursuit of Happyness (Lisa Johanna Paul)

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I'd like to analyze the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" in regards to how the protagonist's struggles and mindset are conveyed through cinematic features

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If possible, I would like to have a look at how poverty/hierarchies are portrayed in Parasite (2019) and what visual techniques are used to underline the poverty of the Kim family in contrast to the Park family.

If Parasite doesn't work because it's Korean, I would find contrasts of poverty and wealth in The Hunger Games (2012) interesting to analyze as well.

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Inspired by the Cultural Studies Lecture, I'd like to do a comparison of Jacob Riis’ and Helen Levitt’s representation of poverty in New York in the late 19th and early 20th century (Lisa Höbenreich)

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Inspired by the Cultural Studies Lecture, I'd like to do a comparison of Jacob Riis’ and Helen Levitt’s representation of poverty in New York in the late 19th and early 20th century (Lisa Höbenreich)

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I'd like to analyse how poverty and crime is portrayed in The Hate U Give or When They See Us. In this regard, it would also be interesting to consider how PoC are portrayed in contrast to white people.

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I would like to analyze at least one mural from wall therapy (https://www.wall-therapy.com/), a street art festival hosted in Rochester NY. The city is America's worst city for childhood poverty and the initiative hopes to spark change within the city's poorest neighbourhoods.

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A public community-level intervention using mural art as a vehicle to address our collective need for inspiration.

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I´d like to analyse the movie The Florida Project in the course of my paper/video. I haven´t found a focus yet :)