Week 13 postgame

One last suggestion for your papers. You can list your films and television shows in your Works Cited. Yes, the very films and television shows you're writing about. After all, that's a source you're consulting, either on YouTube or on DVD, right?

I look forward to your final drafts.

-Tim Finn

Week 12 postgame

Hello students.



Nothing big this week, just a small description of "House of Flame" that didn't Xerox well on your screening list, from the Kino website:

"A Japanese 'Drama of the Absurd.' A young village woman is torn between two suitors. Out of anguish, she decides to destroy herself. Although her intentions are pure, her death reverberates with shocking consequences."

If you want to read about Japanese animation, and a bit on Korean and Chinese, try:
Bendazzi 103-106, 181-186, 410-418
Beck 30-31, 52-53, 76-77, 112-114, 142, 174, 196, 236-241, 260-261, 294-301, 320-335, 366-375

-Tim Finn

Week 11 postgame

Another formatting idea for your final paper: Quotes shorter than 3 lines get set off by quotation marks and fit into your essay like normal. Quotes longer than 3 lines are single-spaced, get tabbed in once from both the left and right margins, and are not set off by quotation marks. Like this:


Also, that contraction in the final sentence ("who've") is too informal, and should be "who have" instead.

Good luck with your drafts.

-Tim

Week 10 postgame

Hello students,

The point of the blog was to expand on class discussion, and for you to sharpen your writing skills in anticipation of the mid-term and then the final. I'm pleased with the results, and so as to not divert your attention from researching and writing, I'm ending the weekly posting requirement. No more questions here. But I will take the opportunity each week to post a small suggestion for your paper, or perhaps provide a link to a very small piece of reading.

This week, a possible structure for your final. If you're not sure how to outline your compare/contrast (and most of you are writing on two films, so I'll use that as a template), try this:

-Brief intro
-First film: Summary and general info
-Second film: Summary and general info
-How they are similar (internally-- story, style, character, or externally-- creator intention, audience reaction, context of the day)
-How they are different
-Your analysis: Why they are significant/how one's influenced the other/how they've been influenced by other works

That's one option. Here's another:

-Brief intro
-First film: Summary, general info, AND significance
-Second film: Summary and general info, AND significance
-How they are similar (internally-- story, style, character, or externally-- creator intention, audience reaction, context of the day) and analysis of why similarities are important
-How they are different and analysis of why differences are important

A reminder: quotes get quotation marks, while titles are italicized:

Author Jerry Beck asserted that "G.I. Joe was a milestone yet to be surpassed," (Fake 283) while noted fan Tim Finn devoted an entire chapter of his book G.I. Joe and Me to the supposition that the 1996 series GI Joe Extreme was indeed superior to its 1983 counterpart.

-Tim

Week 9 Discussion

If you could show any one film from this week's screening to a friend or family member who is not an animation fan, which would it be and why?

“The Great Toy Robbery,” Jeff Hale
“Walking,” Ryan Larkin
“Hunger,” Peter Foldes
“The Street,” Caroline Leaf
“The Sand Castle,” Co Hoedeman
“The Bead Game,” Ishu Patel
“Every Child,” Eugene Fedorenko
“The Cat Came Back,” Cordell Barker
“When the Day Breaks,” Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis

Please don't forget to sign your post.

-Tim Finn