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FINAL PAPER

Final Paper: Due on Feb 12 th (Mon) Write a 2500-word essay (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around; refer to Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html) SUBMISSION : Please submit the essay to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “Final Paper SEMINAR”; format your file name as ‘SEMINAR final paper + Your Name’. 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 CONTENT: 1) THINK WELL before working on your arguments; in your final paper, while you could write about the LISTED films from our syllabus (refer to the list), it is also possible

2) Korean Cinema Against the Global Context

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WEEK 15/January 26 th Screening: Okja , 2017. Dir. Bong Joon-ho (streaming on Netflix) WEEK 1 6 /February 2 nd    Group Presentations Suggested Readings: Christina Klein. "Why American Studies Needs to Think about Korean Cinema, or, Transnational Genres in the Films of Bong Joon-ho."  American Quarterly  60, no. 4 (2008): 871-898. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed September 11, 2017). [click HERE ] Chung, Hye Seung. & Diffrient, David Scott. 2015. “Introduction: South Korean Cinema’s Transnational Trajectories.” In Movie migrations : transnational genre flows and South Korean cinema.   Rutgers University Press. [click HERE ] Taylor, Brandon . 2016. “ The Ideological Train to Globalization: Bong Joon-ho's The Host and Snowpiercer ”. Cineaction , 98. [click HERE ]

Change of Plan

NO THESIS WORKSHOP! FINAL PAPER DUE ON  FEB 5th, Monday WEEK 15/January 26 th Screening: Okja , 2017. Dir. Bong Joon-ho (streaming on Netflix) WEEK 1 6 /February 2 nd    Group Presentations Suggested Readings: Christina Klein. "Why American Studies Needs to Think about Korean Cinema, or, Transnational Genres in the Films of Bong Joon-ho."  American Quarterly  60, no. 4 (2008): 871-898. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed September 11, 2017). Chung, Hye Seung. & Diffrient, David Scott. 2015. “Introduction: South Korean Cinema’s Transnational Trajectories.” In Movie migrations : transnational genre flows and South Korean cinema.   Rutgers University Press. Taylor, Brandon . 2016. “ The Ideological Train to Globalization: Bong Joon-ho's The Host and Snowpiercer ”. Cineaction , 98. WEEK 17/February 9 th     Thesis Workshop