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PMA 3550 - Global Cinema I - Cornell University

Question:

Paper on film studies

Research Paper

The purpose of this research essay is to:

Gather source materials to conduct a critical project

Make an informed original argument

Coherently situate your own analysis among outside research

Further develop your close film analysis skills

Here's how you should go about it: pick a film from the list of films we have seen, one that you didn't write about for your first assignment. Start generating a preliminary argument about this film that can be supported by concrete textual evidence.

Start reading around the film: outside sources may include our textbook and other assigned readings, scholarly journal articles, book chapters, reviews, industry-oriented documents, whole books that relate to the film in some way (to its genre, director, era of production, industrial context, etc.), and any other texts you find relevant or helpful. As you encounter sources, consider their relevance, accuracy, and quality.

Be open to the possibility that what you want to write about and what you discover may be different; this is part of the research process, and you can't rush it. Also be open to the possibility of putting a range of source material in conversation with your selected film and subject(s), especially if you find yourself unable to find full volumes on the film you've selected; sources don't necessarily need to be exclusively dedicated to your film to be revealing or productive.

Once you've picked a film and research is underway, refine your research questions into a preliminary argument. What are your paper's central questions? What is your main point, project, or thesis?

You'll then curate the sources you need to make that argument in an annotated bibliography: a list of citations where each citation is accompanied by a short but substantial paragraph explaining the relevance of this source to your subject and its relationship to your essay's argument.

Before you write your essay, watch the entire film again, and select scenes, sequences, or moments that you can use to support or even complicate your essay's argument. Remember to pay and demonstrate close attention to film form in your writing: what is the camera doing? What can you say about the framing? How are the elements of mise-en-scène working, individually or in relation to one another? How do these elements interact with the narrative? We will be looking for evidence of close reading in your essays-both of the film you select, and of the sources with which you work.

Attachment:- Research - Global Cinema.rar