Question Description
I’m working on a film project and need support to help me learn.
Compose a research paper in 5-6 pages (double spaced) on a Taiwan film or director around one of the following possible topics:
a), language and cosmopolitan vernacular;
b), camera work: location shooting; long shot, special effects, multimedia mixing, etc.
c), film and the question of agency: freedom to act;
d), disruptive innovation in theme, technique, genre, style, pace, body movement, among others;
e), experiments with new social realities such as the subaltern class, gay identity, gender equality, trauma and memory, violence, political crisis, and so forth;
f), Uses of literary symbolism, motifs or metaphoric designs;
g), personal as political: life into art, narrating the nation, cultural critique, and so on.
Films list:
1. 10+10 (2010)
2. Le Moulin (dir. Ya-li Huang, 2015)
3. A Borrowed Life (dir. Wu Nien-jen, 1994)
4. Beautiful Duckling (dir. Li Xin, 1965)
5. Terrorizers (dir. Edward Yang, 1986)
6. What Time is It There (dir. Tsai Ming-iang, 1999)
7. Au revoir Taipei (dir. Arvin Chen, 2010)
8. Wawa No Cidai (2015, dir. Losia Shumi)
9. The Great Buddha (dir. Huang Hsin-yao, 2017)
10. Viva Tonal: The Dance Age (dir. Kuo Chen-ti, 2003)
Paper Format:
Please consult the latest edition of MLA Style Manual or MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.
You may want to visit MLA formatting website at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01 for guidance.
Your paper must be typed, double-spaced with one-inch margin on all four sides of the page.
Please staple your 5-6 pages of text followed by a works cited page. You should proof-read your writing carefully, making sure that there are no spelling, grammar, or punctuation mistakes.