final paper

Due on Feb 5^th Wednesday

Whole day, via Email to Ma Ran: maran@nagoya-u.jp

NOTE: if you have not received my confirmation mail after the submission, mail me again; my university mail sometimes is not compatible with your mail system.

BASICS:

1,000-1,500 words. The annotation style of the Paper will be Harvard. Please self-study it (citation tools such as Mendeley, and Zotero would really help you!).

Please submit the Final Paper to the lecturer’s email address maran@nagoya-u.jp with the subject “IFH final paper”. The WORD file should contain “IFH” + the student’s name in its file name (because it would make it easier to categorize your submissions). I’d send out 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             Title of article  [please do NOT use the bibliographical item as your title…] Main Body Works Cited

What to Work on and How?

This final paper shall demonstrate how well you are familiar with the general world film histories explored/introduced throughout this semester.

1)    Each assignment should focus on one specifically chosen time-frame to work with (see the list below) AND to be case study-based (=your study of this chosen framework of film history should be done by turning to/analyzing specific film text/s, and/or film auteur/s, film movement/s, development of film styles/technologies etc.).

It is encouraged that you continue your explorations from your earlier reading journals, working with these historical surveys:

1.    Soviet Cinema: 1919-1929

2.    Early Cinemas in East Asia until the 1930s

3.    The Hollywood Studio System: 1930-1945

4.    Postwar European Cinema: Art Cinema & New Waves

5.    (West) European Cinemas into the Era of Globalization

6.    Toward A Global Film Culture

2)    at least 1 reference (which would be your cited sources; and appear in the bibliography at the end of the paper) should be from our syllabus readings.

Remember: you are always welcome to quote extra sources that you find useful, but pay attention not to conduct plagiarism. Quote systematically could avoid plagiarizing “by mistake/out of ignorance”.

Here are some very basic tips for how to work on a so-called academic paper in humanities, with distinguished ‘argument’:

source : http://www.sass.uottawa.ca/writing/kit/grad-writing-essentials.pdf

For in-text citation, I prefer author-date that looks like this (Ko 2010, 12); please do NOT use footnote/endnote for in-text citation. Harvard bibliography entry shall then look like this: Ko, Mika. (2009). Japanese Cinema and Otherness. Japanese Cinema and Otherness: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and the Problem of Japanesenesss. London; New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203866719.

Older example from Ma Ran:

Based on theoretical debates over the representation of the Other/Japanese-ness in Japanese cinema (Dew 2016; Ko 2010; Gerow 2003), with borrowed insights from modern Japanese history and sociology (Oguma 1998; Tomiyama 1990), “Okinawan Dream Show” highlights how Takamine’s oeuvre presents multiple possibilities in configuring Okinawan subjectivity and rethinking Okinawa’s translocality/transnationality within the power-geometries of mainland Japan, neighboring Asian areas and the US. 

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.[All assignments/papers will be checked with professional software]