De Anza College Taiwan Films Analysis

Compose a research paper in 5-6 pages (double spaced) on a Taiwan film or director around one of the following possible topics:

a), language and cosmopolitan vernacular;

b), camera work: location shooting; long shot, special effects, multimedia mixing, etc.

c), film and the question of agency: freedom to act;

d), disruptive innovation in theme, technique, genre, style, pace, body movement, among others;

e), experiments with new social realities such as the subaltern class, gay identity, gender equality, trauma and memory, violence, political crisis, and so forth;

f), Uses of literary symbolism, motifs or metaphoric designs;

g), personal as political: life into art, narrating the nation, cultural critique, and so on.

Objectives:

1) Write a research paper on Taiwan film, convincingly analyzed, and meticulously documented, to make a point.

2) Demonstrate original and critical thinking by including and utilizing at least three external academic sources.

Movie list :

A Borrowed Life ?? (dir. Wu Nien-jen, 1994)

Beautiful Duckling ???? (dir. Li Xin, 1965)

ou are the Apple of My Eye (2011, dir. Ko Ching-teng, aka ???)

Au revoir Taipei ???? (dir. Arvin Chen, 2010)

Wawa No Cidai????? (2015, dir. Losia Shumi)

The Great Buddha????? (dir. Huang Hsin-yao, 2017)

he Dance Age ???? (dir. Kuo Chen-ti, 2003)

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