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COM332 Chinese Cinema

Semester 1, 2022-2023

Essay 2

Date of submission: Coursework must be submitted no later than 17:00 on

Monday 18 December 2023

Submission method: Learning Mall

Submission format: Word document

Word limit: 2,000 words (excluding bibliography, +/- 10%)

Weight: 60% of grade for COM332

Learning Outcomes Assessed: A, B, C, & D

Assignment Overview

This assignment is designed to enable you to demonstrate the analytic skills that you have acquired in COM332. In particular, you are expected to demonstrate your critical engagement with an in-depth understanding of the key concepts and theories covered in the second half of the semester. You should choose one of the questions below and respond to it based on your own research, reading, and cinematic analysis.

While you are expected to explain the broader context or the complexities of the film, the ultimate aim of the essay is to construct your own argument in response to the essay question you choose.

1. According to Cui Shuqin, ‘On the one hand, documentary practices reposition the other as subject: a self speaking, addressing the camera, leading the narrative. The camera and the director, often off-screen, observe and document with minimal intervention. Such documentary modes invite the audience to see the historical world as the camera has captured it and respond with their own arguments or meanings.’ Quoting Zhang Yingjin, she also comments that ‘[o]n the other hand, the truth-claim […] can be ‘ambivalent and contradictory’. [E]xposure to social realities and documentation of the ordinary do not ‘validate truth’ as the camera itself does not permit ‘zero degree writing’ (Cui Shuqin 2010: 6). Choose one documentary from China that is produced after 1990 and use it as a case study to discuss your views on the statement above and your views on how documentaries construct a semblance of truth and reality.

2. Choose one film from the New Wave cinemas (China mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and discuss what is so ‘new’ about the specific New Wave cinema. Ensure you analyse specific scenes from the film to discuss the ‘new’ ways of the cinema. Although you choose one film to carry out your discussion, the focus of your essay should be on the overall characteristics of the specific New Wave cinema instead of the individual film. The points you could examine may include the thematic issues, the technical advances, the different working practices, the re-worked genres, and how the film responds to the social issues. Include the discussions of the historical context and the industry context as well.

3. When discussing Feng Xiaogang’s hesuipian, Jason McGrath argues that Feng’s films ‘by no means constitute a "third cinema" or a national art cinema-both of which would define themselves by their opposition to Hollywood in terms of narration and style-but instead are highly dependent upon Hollywood tradition for their inspiration and legibility to audiences’ (Jason McGrath, 2008: 184). This comment could apply to the other commercially successful Chinese films as well. Choose one commercially successful film released since 2010 and discuss your view on this statement.

4. In the introduction of Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts, Lingzhen Wang argues that ‘The agency of women filmmakers has long existed, but it is historically conditioned and diverse. It is situated in women’s concrete and various negotiations with differently established dominant discourses and in their socially and politically conditioned cinematic practice or performance’ (Wang Lingzhen 2011: 25-26). Choose one or two films directed by women film director(s) since 2008 and discuss how the agency of the director is represented in the chosen film(s) and how it is ‘historically conditioned’.

These essay questions are open-ended, meaning that you may reach different conclusions in your research essay. What you need to do is to critically present and justify your analysis, reading, and arguments.

Good essays will have the following features:

· A logical structure with a proper introduction and conclusion

· A sense of purpose and argument and careful attention to the question at hand throughout

· Evidence of in-depth engagement with the relevant critical literature (excellent work will show extensive reading/viewing/research)

· Clear and accurate exposition of the key theoretical/critical terms

· Detailed textual analysis of your chosen cinematic materials

· An understanding of how the film is situated within its particular sociocultural and/or industrial context

· A clear sense of how your examples relate to the critical literature at hand

· Careful referencing and a full, complete bibliography

Essay Format

The essay must follow the format outlined below:

· Cover Sheet (signed & dated)

· Introduction: Clearly presenting your topic, research subject, focus, and arguments.

· Main Text: Critically presenting your discussion and analysis, supported by your close reading of cinematic text, context, and/or paratext.

· Conclusion: Concisely summarising your critique discussed in the essay; also briefly pointing out the significance of your arguments and the potential directions for future research

· Bibliography (including references)

· Submitted in word.doc or word.docx format (NOT PDF).

File name: COM332_ESSAY2_ (STUDENT ID).docx (DO NOT use your name).

· Arial or Times New Roman; 12 Point Font

· Double Spaced

· Remember to include Page Numbers

· APA Referencing Style

· Word Count included (excluding bibliography).

Essay Marking Descriptor

	Excellent/Very Good (70+)	Comprehensive (60-69)	Competent (50-59)	Adequate (40-49)	Poor (0-39)
Understanding, Analysis, Synthesis, and Application of Knowledge	Consistent perceptive and critical engagement with issues and themes based on comprehensive understanding of relevant concepts and theories; the analysis, synthesis and application of knowledge is consistently clear and effective.	Frequent perceptive and critical engagement with issues and themes; the analysis, synthesis and application of knowledge is generally clear and effective but occasional shortcomings in understanding of relevant concepts and theories are evident.	Overall, some perceptive and critical engagement with issues and themes, the analysis, synthesis and application of knowledge is mostly clear and effective but the essay in parts reveals rather superficial understanding of relevant concepts and theories.	Occasional critical engagement with key issues and themes but in general rarely goes beyond reproduction of relevant concepts and theories, impaired in parts by considerable inaccuracies.	No critical engagement with issues, and themes. Essay characterized by serious inaccuracies and misunderstandings.
Argumentation	Examines the question/issue/ problem from all important perspectives. Overall logic is clear. Premises or evidence strongly support conclusions. Counter-evidence or rival positions addressed. Arguments fit together and build a compelling case.	Examines the question/issue/ problem from most of the important perspectives. Expresses own position, and argumentative structure is clear and logical, but some arguments underdeveloped or some considerations overlooked.	Examines the question/issue/ problem from some of the important perspectives. Not all relevant arguments and counter arguments are fully examined. Offers own position but reasoning is sometimes impaired by weak, emotive, or inconsistent argumentation.	Examines the question/issue/ problem from a single perspective. Only minimal examination of relevant arguments and counterarguments. Offers own position, but the arguments are not put forward explicitly and not sufficiently supported.	Arguments are confused and illogical. Student fails to present and defend a coherent position. Offers own position, but arguments are flawed, disorganised, or difficult to identify or understand.
Structure / Organisation	Introduction clearly states writer’s thesis or position, and conclusion clearly summarizes main arguments. Development of ideas is structured into appropriate paragraphs with fluent transitions. Each paragraph containing a central idea which is developed throughout the paragraph with supporting details.	Introduction states writer’s thesis or position, and conclusion summarises main arguments. Development of ideas is structured into appropriate paragraphs, but some paragraphs lack supporting detail or contain unrelated details.	Introduction and conclusion are included and generally capture the essence of the topic and discussion. It is evident that the development of ideas is structured into different paragraphs, but some paragraphs lack a central idea or supporting detail	Introduction and conclusion are included but do not adequately capture the essence of the topic and discussion. Limited evidence that the development of ideas is structured in meaningful paragraphs. Construction a paragraph with a central idea and supporting details is limited.	Introduction and conclusion are unclear, lack detail or are missing altogether. Very little evidence of organnising the essay into paragraphs with one central idea and supporting details. Hence the development of ideas is unclear.
Written expression	The language contains very few, if any, errors in grammar and vocabulary. If slips are present, the meaning is still clear. Conventions of academic writing (e.g. citation, references, footnotes, etc.) are followed meticulously.	The language is generally accurate but contains some systematic errors in complex grammar and vocabulary. Conventions of academic writing (e.g. citation, references, footnotes, etc.) are followed apart from the occasional oversight.	The language is mostly accurate; and errors, when they occur, are more often in complex grammar and vocabulary. Errors are distracting but the overall meaning is still intelligible. Conventions of academic writing (e.g. citation, references, footnotes, etc.) are followed but at times inconsistencies and/or errors occur.	The language is sufficient for arguments to be understood with effort. However, the language contains frequent errors in simple and complex grammar and vocabulary that are distracting. Conventions of academic writing (e.g. citation, references, footnotes, etc.) are followed but show many inconsistencies and/or errors.	Errors in language and vocabulary are so frequent and distracting that the essay is largely incomprehensible. Does not adhere to the conventions of academic writing (e.g. citation, references, footnotes, etc.).