Students can earn a maximum of 4 points to be added to their final cumulative grade by watching Hip Hop films taken from the list below. Each post is worth 1 point.
After watching the film, students are to submit a 300-word reflection post to the course blog, titled and categorized appropriately. Don’t forget: images, links, gifs, etc are highly encouraged. Your post should be titled “LAST NAME_Extra Credit Reflection on MOVIE NAME.”
Students may only submit two posts before midterms and then two after midterms. (This prevents students from watching 4 movies and posting the extra credit reflections all on the last day of class!)
Documentary Films/Videos to choose from:
- Grandmaster Flash Talks “The Theory” Of Being A HipHop DJ & The Beginnings Of Hip-Hop!!
- Wild Style (1982) working on access-try interlibrary loan?
- Style Wars (1983) working on access-try interlibrary loan?
- Breakin’ (1984) not a documentary, working on access-try interlibrary loan?
- Beat Street (1984) working on access-try interlibrary loan?
- Tupac: Resurrection (2003) available on YouTube for free
- And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years Of Hip-Hop (2004) available on YouTube in parts for free
- Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (2006) in the library!
- My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women And Hip-Hop (2010) available on YouTube for free
- Pick Up the Mic (2006) working on access-try interlibrary loan?
- Asia Rising: The Next Generation Of Hip Hop (2019) available on YouTube for free
- Say My Name (2009) in the library!
- Hip Hop Evolution (2016-) docuseries only available on netflix :/
- Roxanne Roxanne (2017) only available on netflix :/
- Planet BBoy (2008) available on YouTube for free
- Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000) available on YouTube for free
- From Mambo to Hip Hop (2006) available on YouTube for free
- Slingshot Hip Hop (2008) available on Vimeo for free
- First Out Here: Indigenous Hip Hop in Canada (2016) available on Vimeo for free
