Take-home Project

NOTE: a correction has been made since I forgot to include the part on Asian cinemas.

Deadline: Jan 15^th 2018, 5pm to my email account. No late submission is allowed.

Description:

For this project, you are expected to conduct a mini-research as our film history course progresses. For the following lectures/topics covered throughout our semester, you are supposed to choose one of them and present to me a list of films (minimum 5, maximum 10) that you think are important to this particular theme/period; they do not have to be the extant films (which means that you could include films we have lost/people cannot find the existing copies as well).

Films screened in-class should be excluded; and I hope through some historical research on your own (or simply by browsing closely the reference readings), you could present to us a filmography of some sort.

1. Early Cinema: Origins, Machines and Attractions

2.     National Cinemas: 1913-1919

3.   Soviet Cinema: 1919-1929

4. the Late Silent Era in Hollywood (and Europe)

5. Early Cinemas in East Asia until the 1930s

6. The Hollywood Studio System: 1930-1945

7. Postwar European Cinema: Art Cinema & New Waves

8. The New Hollywood

Format (the list of book/film should be stylized according to CMS)

You have to

 1) list out the films (CMS format); and 2) offer some brief reason why you think it could be included in this historical study list; 3) include a bibliography based on which your list of films has been drafted.

Length: 1-2 A4 pages

(It is more important that you could do independent research and construct the book list than proving how many words you have written)