Prompt: Write a paper that explores the role France, and Paris specifically, play in the film Julie and Julia (2008). In your paper, you will answer the following questions:
Does the film’s heroine, Julie, have misconceptions about Paris, the French, and/or Parisian cuisine when she begins her blog? If so, what are they?
Do her views change as she embarks on making every single recipe in Julia Child’s cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961)?
Do you think that Julie’s understanding of French cuisine in the American imagination evolves throughout the film?
Remember that response papers are not summaries of the materials presented in class or the assigned readings but should offer a synthesis of the material presented in order to answer the questions provided in the prompt. A paper that is merely a condense version of the reading will receive at most a “C” grade.
The movie is available on Netflix
