Final Paper: Due on Feb 5 (Mon), 5pm.

Write a 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)

SUBMISSION: Please submit the essay to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “Final Paper CFA”, and format your FILE NAME as ‘Final Paper CFA+YOUR NAME’. Do give your paper a title! 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 Final Paper Title of article

AIM & CONTENT:

You are expected to

1)          Analyze ONE film listed below, to demonstrate your understanding of certain analytical frameworks and methods in film studies introduced in this semester (refer to each session’s theme; often, several methods can be used together to analyze a film text—for instance you may use mise-en-scene plus feminism film theory to analyze Silence of the Lambs); for sure possible to include multiple methods, and multiple film(s), BUT only one film from the LIST would be the FOCUS (e.g., if you want to analyze two films, say Fight Club and Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer to talk about post-classical narrative, fine, but the focus should be on the former);

2)         You are encouraged to refer to concepts and discourses (such as keywords, theoretical framings proposed or elaborated on by our authors) we have examined throughout the semester, at least TWO references sources should be from the REQUIRED readings; external sources are welcomed as long as you quote them properly (read closely about CMS);

3)         You could re-use discussions in your reading journals for the part of literature review (if you are not sure about what does this mean, please consult your teacher in thesis writing). But it is more important for me to learn what are your own interpretation and viewpoints for specific film works; only paraphrasing is not enough, you need to work with the arguments. 

Film list (sequence in line with the order of lectures)

Early films by Lumière Brothers & Georges Méliès;

Un Chien Andalou, Dir. Luis Buñuel, 1929

Battleship Potemkin, Dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925

Man with a Movie Camera, Dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929

Citizen Kane, Dir. Orsen Welles, 1941

Fight Club, Dir. David Fincher, 1999

Train to Busan, 2016. Dir. Yeon Sang-on

The Silence of the Lambs, 1991, Dir. Jonathan Demme

Waltz with Bashir, 2008, Dir. Ali Folman

Notes 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 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]