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Title: Over the hedge Rating: 2.4 out of 4 Reference: Producer & director, Karen D. Davis. Library of Congress subjects: Topiary work--United States Landscape gardening--United States Sociology subjects: The city Ethnographic methods Interviewing methods Popular culture in North America Reviews and Numerical Ratings 4 Hilarious study of the mundane. The suburbs characterized, uncharacteristically, as a blank slate for creativity. Interview & observation data can be used to analyse the neuroses of suburban life, the definition of deviance, organization of meaning, and account-making. Lecture topics: the city, cultural studies, deviance, symbolic interaction. Kathy Bischoping & Riley Olstead 2 I couldn’t connect the topic of this video to anything relevant to sociology. Very boring. Sarah Rogers 1 This documentary can certainly bring joy & laughter to its viewers, but its educational purpose is hard to detect. There was no clear & concise intellectual explanation in the video, which further explains why it is of no value for students seeking to be educated. Do not show this video to your class unless you want to briefly entertain your students. (The level of difficulty would be suitable for all students.) Minh Hoang (undergraduate) 1 I just do not know what to say about this video. It is supposed to be funny but what I see are individuals with perhaps excessive compulsive behaviours...or they could just be people with some eccentricity & artistic talent who express themselves this way. I cannot say I would recommend this video for the curriculum, but my knowledge of the curriculum is limited. Jennifer Lewis-Phillips (undergraduate) 4 At the Graduate Workshop there was an overwhelming
positive response to this video. Graduate students thought that one’s
front yard was very sociological and that this video was a fantastic,
comical critiquing of everyday life. Viewers believed that this video
would help sociology students challenge themselves to really think about
what kinds of social topics we study and why (sociology of the norm
and why?). They thought it was great that this video did not discuss
the subaltern. One minor criticism was that undergraduate students might
find this video problematic because of the video’s low self-explicatory
value. Yet notwithstanding this minor criticism, most attendees thought
that this video should definitely be shown at the upcoming sociology
video festival. Graduate Workshop
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