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final paper

Final Paper: Due on Feb 7 th     TUESDAY, 5pm Write a 3000 (non-JACS graduates)/4000 (JACS graduates)-word essay; CMS format style ; see https://library.osu.edu/documents/english/FINALlibrary_CMS.pdf In your final paper, at least one of the films you are writing about should be from the films highlighted in our class (see the list at the end), and films used for our January Workshop could be considered as well; at least 3 references you will be using should be from our syllabus (at least 2 from the Required Readings); you are always welcome to quote other academic/semi-academic sources. SUBMISSION : Please submit the essay, in Microsoft WORD (unless you don’t have it) to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “Final Paper city seminar”. 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 assignm

BORDER TRANSGRESSED: MINORITY, DIASPORA AND REFUGEE

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  Week 14/Jan 19 th     Screening: Old Dog , dir. Pema Tseden, 2013 Week 15/Jan 26 th     Lecture + Seminar Session Required Readings Berry, Chris. 2016, “Pema Tseden and the Tibetan Road Movie: Space and Identity beyond the ‘Minority Nationality Film’”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas , pp. 89-105., 10.1080/17508061.2016.1167334 [distributed in class] Frangville, Vanessa. 2016, “Pema Tseden’s The Search: The Making Of A Minor Cinema”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas , pp.106-119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2016.1167335 [distributed in class]

Jan 12 Workshop Film Selections

this entry will be kept updated before the seminar. Brad:  Kaili Blues further information about this film could be found: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=3INrywOpaxs http://www.imdb.com/title/ tt4613272/ From Brad: I plan to use the film's establishment of space, time, and community during its famous long take to explore Butler's (Arendt's?) notion of the sphere of appearance. I really enjoyed the Butler essay, and there is much more that I think can be applied to Bi Gan's film (not just the long take). Shihao: Tiny Times (sorry, I didn't read this mail earlier for some reason!) from Shihao: A general description of the film is available on Wikipedia: " Tiny Times   (Chinese: 小时代), also known as   Tiny Times 1.0   is a 2013 Chinese romance drama film written and directed by   Guo Jingming   and based on the best-selling novel of the same name also by Guo.   The story follows the film's narrator and protagonist Lin Xiao,   played b