- Have you heard someone say that a story bothered or affected them deeply, but they didn’t know why?
- Is presentation of one style of life subtly prejudiced toward another?
- Can you explain why people are drawn to fictional stories, why that art or music compelled a social movement, why that video game is addicting, or why that ad made people run out and buy?
- Have you noted media bias or attempts to influence points of view?
Every aspect of psychology is portrayed in the media. So whatever your specialty, CPSY is your opportunity to analyze the media equivalent to help people gain deeper understanding of themselves and others, and how the media—locally and around the world—influence individual and social psychology.
The average analysis is only 1-3 pages. This is your opportunity to point out a movie's subtly manipulative psychological message, the meaning behind a music video's symbolism, a video game's seductive psychology you want to bring to light, or maybe a book's incisive psychology and what can be learned.
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Analyze the following titles, or scan them to kick start ideas of your own.
| The Assassination of Jesse James | Apocalypse Now |
| The Godfather | Risky Business |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | The Incredibles |
| Dirty Harry | Bladerunner |
| 40 Year Old Virgin | Castaway on the Moon |
| Alien | Single White Female |
| A Clockwork Orange | Unforgiven |
| Rachael Getting Married | Y Tu Mama Tambien |
| Do the Right Thing | Annie Hall |
| The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | The Piano |
| Deliverance | Silence of the Lambs |
| Where the Boys Are | The Deer Hunter |
| Twelve O'Clock High | Night of the Dead |
| Dr. Strangelove | Full Metal Jacket |
| Basic Instinct | Midnight Cowboy |
| Rocky Horror Picture Show | Gladiator |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Harry Potter |
| Goldfinger | American Pie |
| As Good as it Gets | Rebel Without a Cause |
| The Exorcist | Sunset Boulevard |
| Ordinary People | Angela's Ashes |
| The Crying Game | Citizen Kane |
| Grizzly Man | Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| Star Wars | The Right Stuff |
| Dick Cavett's Vietnam | Splendor in the Grass |
| Groundhog Day | Fatal Attraction |
| Documentaries | |
| Winter Soldier | Triumph of the Will |
| Jiro Dreams of Sushi | An Inconvenient Truth |
| Bowling for Columbine | Deliver Us From Evil |
| The Missing Picture | 20 Feet From Stardom |
| We Were Here | Last Train Home |
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Citizenfour |
| Plays | |
| Equus | Sweeney Todd |
| Death of a Salesman | Amadeus |
| West Side Story | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| The Vagina Monologues | A Raisin in the Sun |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Gypsy |
| Hamlet | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Les Miserables | Romeo and Juliet |
| Peter Pan | Glengarry Glen Ross |
| Mad Men | Game of Thrones |
| Breaking Bad | Downton Abbey |
| Modern Family | The Kardashians |
| The Bachelor/Bachelorette | South Park |
| Survivor | The Big Bang Theory |
| 60 Minutes | Nightly News |
| Fox News | SpongeBob SquarePants |
| Mash | Days of Our Lives |
| Father Knows Best | Gidget |
| True Blood | Howard Stern |
| The Young and the Restless | NCIS |
| 20/20 | The Office |
| Outlander | Anne of Green Gables |
| Atlas Shrugged | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Tom Sawyer | The Jungle Book |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1984 |
| Dianetics | Catch-22 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Book of Revelation |
| Interview with a Vampire | The Shining |
| The Myth of Sisyphus | Carrie |
| Superman | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life |
| Machiavelli: The Prince | Twilight |
| Dracula | Ward No. 6 |
| Catcher in The Rye | 50 Shades of Gray |
| Call of the Wild | Pride and Prejudice |
| Cinderella | The Hunger Games |
| King Rat | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| Alice in Wonderland | Mommie Dearest |
| The Shining | The Federalist Papers |
| Mein Kampf | Uncle Tom�s Cabin |
| Game of Thrones | Gone With the Wind |
| The Great Gatsby | Heart of Darkness |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Frankenstein |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | How to Win Friends and Influence People |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Wuthering Heights |
| Marlboro Man | 1984 (Apple Macintosh) |
| I Want You for U.S. Army | The Force (Volkswagen) |
| Barbie: Imagine the Possibilities | Bud Frogs (Budweiser) |
| Van Heusen: Show Her It's a Man's World | PETA: All Animals Have the Same Parts |
| SnoreStop: Be Together | American Apparel: Bubblelicious |
| Calvin Klein (Heroin Chic) | Diesel: Be Stupid |
| TriMet: In any War Between the Civilized Man and the Savage, Support the Civilized Man | Sisley: Fashion Junkies |
| You Know I'm No Good | Rocket Man |
| Strange Fruit | Been Down This River Too Long |
| What's Going On | Zombie |
| Love Interruption | You Know I'm No Good |
| House of the Rising Sun | Smells Like Teen Spirit |
| Crazy | Spill the Wine |
| Your Own Personal Jesus | Summertime |
| Virtual Insanity | Swing Low, Sweet Chariot |
| This Land is Your Land | Beez In The Trap |
| America (Jimmie Hendrix) | Love Interruption |
| Grand Theft Auto | BioShock |
| Minecraft | Call of Duty: Black Ops |
| Shadow of the Colossus | Manhunt |
| Heavy Rain | Assassin's Creed |
| The Elder Scrolls | Warcraft |
| Fallout 4 | Battlefield 3 |
| Vietnam Memorial | Starry Night |
| Pieta | Black Iris |
| The Birth of Venus | Guernica |
| Sistine Chapel ceiling | Washington Monument |
| Taj Mahal | The Sleeping Gypsy |
| St. Paul's Cathedral | The Colosseum |
| Roots | Man at the Crossroads |
| Portrait and a Dream | The Last Supper |
| The Scream | The Persistence of Memory |
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