Film Review Assignment

Due: Monday Mar 15, 2021

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Write an essay exploring a combination of any two films below. If you prefer a combination of three, so much the better. You can pick any or any combination of the following suggested topics or you can come up with your own topics, but whatever you write about, your writing should comply with the following requirements:

List of Films:

1. The Goddess

2. Street Angel

3. On The Song of Fishermen

4. A Spring River Flows East

Suggested Topics

1. The charm of early Chinese films

2. The characteristics of early Chinese films

3. Realism in early Chinese films

4. Female protagonists in early Chinese films

5. Leftist films in the early Chinese cinematic period

6. What makes the 1st and 2nd golden ages in the history of Chinese films

Requirements

1. The opening paragraph should introduce your theme, explaining what you intend to do in the body of the paper.

2. The body paragraphs should focus on the topics that support your theme.

3. The ending paragraph should summarize what you have discussed in the body.

4. Between 4-10 pages long /double spacing/Font Size: 11

What the professor is looking for:

1. The richness of the content.

2. The depth of the exploration.

3. The logic of the reasoning.

4. The coherence of the writing.

5. The concreteness of the materials used.

6. Relevance of the examples used.

7. Artistic presentation of the writing if you can come up with any.

Note: You can use online reference, but you cannot just copy someone’s writing. The writing has to be from your own thinking.