Film Analysis, Sociology 101
Douglas Rupik
Even though I have a couple of Bachelor's degrees, I wanted to
get an Associate's degree because my students were working
toward them, and it gave me the opportunity to observe other
teachers in action. Sociology 101 was the last class standing
between me and my A.A.S degree. One assignment was to watch
a film with sociological significance and write a summary and
analysis using concepts learned in class. That is the paper I am
submitting here.
I watched the film “The Story of Stuff” narrated by Annie
Leonard, (http://storyofstuff.org/movies/). The movie is a
narrated cartoon, densely filled with facts and statistics
regarding our present day system of manufacturing and
distribution of material goods, with theories and explanations
of our economic system.
The film seeks to answer the question “Where does stuff
[material goods] come from and where does it go to?” Annie
Leonard begins the story of “stuff