Final Paper: Due on August 6th (Monday), whole day

For BA: 1,500-2,000/MA: 2,500-3,000 words. The annotation style of the Paper will be MLA; see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/675/01/). Don’t be overly concerned with grammar (although spell-check will be helpful!).

Please submit the Final Paper to the lecturer’s email address maran@nagoya-u.jp with the subject “final paper CAV”. 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

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]

AIM AND CONTENT:

You should engage with TWO reading(s) as listed in our syllabus, and you are expected to review, evaluate and even critique certain concepts (such as keywords proposed by scholars) and/or arguments (much detailed explanations). Specifically, we encourage you to highlight the keywords and key frameworks outlined in the syllabus, including but are not limited to theories by Althusser, Debord, Baudrillard, Foucault (panopticon), Said, Mulvey, Manovich and so forth.

Keep your discussion SMALL-scale (read: no need to review EVERYTHING in one take), and specific (read: you need to contextualize your case studies). We expect you to be able to present your own interpretation and viewpoints by offering an appropriate case study, for which you could use examples from our lectures, or visual TEXTS such as films, images, commercials, or other related cultural phenomenon etc. If you have any problem, please email me or make appointment to meet me.