ACC final paper
FINAL PAPER for INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN CINEMA CULTURE (ACC)
DEADLINE: Feb 8th/Friday, the Whole Day
SUBMISSION: Please submit the essay to the lecturer’s email address maran@nagoya-u.jp with the subject “Final Paper ACC”. The Word file should contain “ACC” + 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
Final Paper
Title of the article
(at the end of the paper)
Bibliography (CMS style)
Filmography (CMS style)
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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. CMS bibliography entry shall then look like this: Ko, Mika. 2009. 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.
What to Work on and How?
In your final paper, 1 of the films you are writing about should be from the films listed on the syllabus [see LIST=when you really want to use films from outside of the syllabus, it is OK, but the focus should be the one from the syllabus]; at least 2 references (which would be your cited sources; and appear in the bibliography at the end of the paper) should be from our syllabus readings.
It would be great if you could approach both the film texts (in terms of their style and content) and their socio-historical contexts. We want to read a piece of critical writing, not a film review, so it is less desirable if you only submit a summary of story plot and lots of ‘me thinks’ (you need to support your discussion); and maybe you want to look deeper into certain arguments you explored in the literature review (which you have done in your Reading Journals), and push further the discursive analysis (Foucault’s sense), if possible.
It is very important to frame your topic within the themes/(trans-)national cinemas surveyed so far each week. Yet, for instance, if you are to write on ‘zainichi cinema’, there is NO need to cover the topic exhaustively, but try to pin down your points of argument in a specific way, and navigate your readers with proper case studies (analysis of the film itself etc.). You are encouraged to extend some of your ideas attempted in your Reading Journals.
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”.
ACC film LIST (one of the films you talk about MUST be from the list):
Raise the Red Lantern (大紅燈籠高高掛), dir. Zhang Yimou/張藝謀, 1991
Summer Palace（颐和园） Dir. Lou Ye/婁燁, 2006
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (臥虎藏龍) Dir. Ang LEE（李安）, 2000
Ugetsu (雨月物語), Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi/溝口健二, 1953
GO! Dir. Yukisada Isao/行定勲, 2001
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (光陰的故事-台灣新電影) Dir. Chinlin Shien/謝慶齡.2014
Yellowing (亂世備忘) Dir. Chan Tze Woon/陳梓桓, 2016
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives/ ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ. Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010
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]
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