Final Paper
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Final Paper: Due on Feb 8th (Mon), till midnight (of Monday)
Please read CAREFULLY about the date/format and content
of the final work.
Write a 1000-1500
word essay (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around;
refer to Chicago Manual of Style
(http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html)
THINK WELL before working
on your arguments; in your final paper, one of the films you are writing
about should be from the 4 films listed below; at least two references
will be from our required readings. Remember: you are always welcome to quote
extra sources, but pay attention not to conduct plagiarism. Quote
systematically could avoid plagiarizing “by mistake/out of ignorance”.
SUBMISSION: Please
submit the essay to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “Final Paper Film History”. I’d send out
confirmation email once your assignment is received. Late submission is not
accepted unless emergency happens.
[I won’t demand you to address me as Professor since I do
not enjoy that too much anyways; but at least call me something—Ran, Ma, Ma
Ran, You…instead of ONLY sending an attached file?]
Format
Include the following information at the top of each
assignment:
Your
Name
Course
Title
Submission
Date
Final
Paper
Title of the article
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This final paper basically only allows you to work on ONE these THREE topics/periods:
1)
The Hollywood Studio System: 1930-1945
Film: the Wizard of OZ, Dir. Victor
Fleming, 1939
2) Postwar European
Cinema: Art Cinema & New Waves
Films:
Bicycle Thieves, dir. Vittorio De Sica, 1948
400 Blows, dir. François Truffaut, 1959
[they belonged to TWO different film movements; you could choose to work ONLY on French New Wave, ONLY on Italian Neorealism, or you could do COMPARATION of both]
3) The New Hollywood
Film: Annie Hall, Dir. Woody Allen, 1977
You are expected to engage certain part/aspect of the
film history and offer your own understandings of the socio-historical contexts
as well as the transformations of cinematic styles and aesthetics (which
include literature review). Preferably, you could use the films listed above to
support/demonstrate your own ideas. For instance, you might want to argue how
“new” Annie Hall has been apropos of
Hollywood narrative conventions; or you want to illustrate your understanding
of Neorealism by analyzing De Sica’s way of portraying Italian urban
environment and people’s psyche in the immediate postwar period. More topics
could be explored, and I recommend you do not try to cover something grand and
macro, and always pin down to a specific aspect of the histories/ film(s).
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