Take Home Project

a bit long, please be patient.

Due Date: Dec 22 (Thursday), 5pm/Earlier submission is possible

Please submit the Journal to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “Take Home Project ACC”. I’d send out confirmation email once your assignment is received. Late submission is not accepted unless emergency happens.

Content:

In this project, you are supposed to accomplish TWO things (A+B). Please make sure you submit both in ONE document (preferably WORD document). No specific format required.  

A. MAGAZINE PROJECT

Investigate and introduce to your readers ONE film magazine/non-academic journal (print or digital) which is from Asia and/or especially deals with Asian cinemas (NOTE: could be European-American ones which totally dedicate to Asian films/ like the currently defunct online magazine Midnight Eye [http://www.midnighteye.com/], introducing Japanese cinema; other options possible, please talk to the teacher). It could be something like Japan’s Kinema Junpo (キネマ旬報), or any influential, interesting, popular publication from your home country/host country/a country you are interested in but have never visited (like North Korea; yeah, they indeed have such thing) that deal with national cinemas.

Regarding this journal/magazine, you must clarify 1) its origin, when/why it was established and how has it developed (and you could work on defunct ones too, if you could dig out more resources); 2) its characteristics (Contents? Innovations? Limitations?), significance (for the national cinema, for the Asian cinema as a whole), and its readership (who reads/uses the magazine? For whom the magazine is established for?) via the example of one specific issue/feature etc.; 3) specify any resources you have used if possible; it is still a semi-academic writing, so please use neutral, objective mode; 4) you are warmly encouraged to use images and attach websites to your project. Word Limit: 500 word; could be more, since it is fun.

B.       REVIEW & REPORT

You could choose from the following 2 options

1) Write a 300-word film review about an Asian film you have recently watched (please offer date of viewing/cinema theater’s name etc.); could be one from/for our class too (like the comfort women documentary);

2) write a 300-word report on a film event (like a film festival, special screening etc.), please also offer details of the event. You are encouraged to talk to the teacher for the chosen topic too.  

Reference for your film review could be this one that I shared earlier in this semester:

Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing About Film. 9th. ed. New York: Longman 2014

Nagoya’s Mini-Theaters (arthouse/second-round; mostly with NO English-subtitle when showing Japanese films)

1.     Nagoya Cinematique　名古屋シネマテーク (http://cineaste.jp/) : they have a great collection of film magazines too (in English, French and Japanese and more); a tiny library from which you could access lots of unthinkable documents. Strongly recommend.

2.    Cinema Skhole　シネマスコーレ (established by Wakamatsu Koji; http://www.cinemaskhole.co.jp/)

3.      Meien Cinesalon　名演小劇場 (http://meien.movie.coocan.jp/)

Slightly more comfortable cinemas for viewing new art films

ミリオン座　（http://www.eigaya.com/theater/million/）