DVC Significance of Unlikely Friendship in Autumn Moon & Peking Opera Blues Essay
Your paper must be comparative; namely, choose ONE topic from below:
Signs of cultural nationalism in “Come Drink With Me” and “Peking Opera Blues”
Images of women warriors in “Come Drink With Me” and “Peking Opera Blues”
Gender and sexuality in “Come Drink With Me” and “Centre Stage”
Construction of female subjectivity in “Peking Opera Blues” and “Centre Stage”
Articulation of memory and history in “Centre Stage” and “Autumn Moon”
Functions of non-melodramatic elements in “Centre Stage” and “Autumn Moon”
Attitudes toward the local and the national in “Autumn Moon” and “Peking Opera Blues”
Significance of unlikely friendship in “Autumn Moon” and “Peking Opera Blues”
Second, your paper must be researched; namely, citing what critics have said about the directors and/or films you are discussing and indicating how you respond to their interpretations. You must use at least 4 print sources assigned in the syllabus. Each article in an edited book counts as one source, but merely listing sources without incorporating them in analysis does not make your paper a researched one.
Third, your paper must be critical; namely, examining texts in detail and engaging different arguments in relation to the issues you are addressing. This also means that you have to maintain your own line of arguments while moving between primary and secondary sources. A summary of narrative plot or biographic information is descriptive rather than critical.
4 RESOURCES:
Zhang, Yingjin. Chinese National Cinema. Routledge, 2004. e-book
Berry, Chris, ed. Chinese Films in Focus II. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Fu, Poshek, and David Desser, eds. The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Cambridge UP, 2000.
Teo, Stephen. Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions. British Film Institute, 1997.
Template
Your name
Paper Title
Keywords 1, 2, 3, 4
Introduction
Discussion of film 1
Discussion of film 2
(you could move between two films here but must provide smooth transitions in between)
Conclusion
Bibliography listed in a separate page (at least 4 sources from the syllabus, items listed in required books and other references)
e.g.,
Author’s name, Book Title (City: Publisher, year).
Author’s name, “article title,” Volume Title, ed. Editor’s name (City: Publisher, year), pp. #-#.
Author’s name, “article title,” Journal Title, volume #, issue # (year), pp. #-#.