Write a 1000-1500 word essay (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around; refer to Chicago Manual of Style; check the course blog for detailed instruction on the style, especially with online resources
Your Final Paper should focus on ONE of the
periods/segments of film history listed below (refer to the end of this handout)—it would be
great if you could think of a title for your essay (better NOT to only use the
‘Period’ as your title); at least ONE references you will be
using should be from our syllabus while you are always welcome to quote other
academic/semi-academic sources.
SUBMISSION: Please submit the essay to the
lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp
with the subject “Final Paper IFH”; PLEASE format your FILE NAME as ‘IFH
final paper+Your Name’ (because there are many students submitting final
essays for different courses). I’d
send confirmation email once your assignment is received. Late submission is
not accepted unless emergency happens.
Format
Include the
following information at the top of each assignment:
Your Name
Course Title
Submission Date
Final Paper
Title of article
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Note on Plagiarism:
Plagiarism:
A writer who presents the ideas of words of another as if they were the
writer’s own (that is, without proper citation) commits plagiarism. Plagiarism
is not tolerable in this course or at Nagoya University. You should avoid
making quotes or drawing on figures from nowhere—you must provide sources of
reference for quotation and/or citations you use in the paper. This applies to
images and media clips as well. Failure to observe this would risk being charged
of plagiarism. In this University, plagiarism is a disciplinary offence. Any
student who commits the offence is liable to disciplinary action. [All
assignments/papers will be checked]
AIM &
CONTENT:
Statements
presented in our major textbook are narratives and arguments built upon solid historical
‘evidences’; they are difficult to refute, challenge, or modify if we are not
pushing ourselves for further, advanced film history studies—which we will NOT
require you to achieve at the moment. As BA students, it is sufficient that you
are clear about how the basic conditions of film institution, film art, and
film cultures have been approached and analyzed with each specific period by
our authors; of course even better if you know how would each period connect
with another; what would be the national, or transnational connections in terms
of film business and film cultures and so forth.
For this Final
Paper assignment, you are expected to
1) Demonstrate
your understanding about a very specific period of world film history (again
refer to the list; you could re-use your discussions in your reading journals;
could relate to your THP); If you want to make comparative studies, you need to
talk to me about your ideas in advance
2) Focus on one
or several related aspect(s) of the film history—could be the industrial
structure; technological innovation; trends in film culture; film movement;
filmmaker and/or star; film style etc.. Better illustrate your ideas with one
or two films as your examples—the films could be those that we watched together
in class, but could also be other works.
It is very
important for me to learn about YOUR (not the subjective you, but a writer for
academic paper) own perspectives; remember this is an essay, NO LONGER simply a
piece of literature review. For example,
you may want to demonstrate your understanding of 1930s’ Japanese silent cinema
with a focus on the tradition of Benshi; or about the 1960s’ European art
cinema movement by looking at French New Wave and Agnes Varda’s Cleo 5 to 7.
List
of Periods
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
9.Western European
Cinemas since the 1970s
10. Toward a Global
Film Culture
Required & Reference Readings: please refer to your syllabus.
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