You will write a 2-4 page double-spaced paper based on your viewing of a modern film. The cutoff has been set for 1980, so the modern films are all released after 1980. You must choose this film from

Modern Films List (Post 1980)
SOC 372 – Sociology of Film


  • Moonlight* (2016)

  • The Florida Project* (2017)

  • Gook* (2017)

  • 1917 (2019)

  • Parasite (2019)

  • Sorry to Bother You (2018)

  • The Color Purple (1985)

  • Dead Poets Society (1989)

  • Do the Right Thing (1989)

  • Glory (1989)

  • The Killing Fields (1984)

  • Platoon (1986)

  • Raging Bull (1980)

  • Children of Men (2006)

  • Paris, Texas* (1984)

  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco* (2019)

  • Memento* (2001)

  • Ex Machina* (2015)

  • We Need to Talk About Kevin* (2011)

  • Good Will Hunting (1997)

  • The Shawshank Redemption (1997)

  • Goodfellas (1990)

  • There Will be Blood (2007)

  • Her (2013)

  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

  • No Country for Old Men (2007)

  • Brokeback Mountain (2005)

  • The Lobster (2015)

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)


* Available on Kanopy (free for WSU students). Most films may be viewed on streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. To avoid costs, Kanopy films have been marked.