Before you start doing this assignment I hope you can read the “requirement for commentary” entirely I posted below and follow it closely to make sure we would not need to revise basic issue later. I’ve made a very close instruction in the attachments below already so Please follow them closely, especially “Grading Rubrics”. You are welcome to reach me out if you have anything unclear before or during the process of the work. Thank you.As for this commentary,
please discuss the ways the three major films e-screened over Weeks 7-9 deal
with Japanese/Chinese/American (Hollywood) influences, in terms of film genres
(state or cold war propaganda, romance comedy, gangster film, noir and
detective, and so on), narrative technique, identity formation and political
agency, global/local dialectics, minority rights, or ecology and sustainability.
Please draw on specific scenes to make your points.Required films need watched and readings need read:
Week 7: Taiwan Films vs. Hollywood
⚫
Film Screening: Au revoir Taipei 一頁台北 (dir. Arvin Chen, 2010)
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⚫
Reading: Rigger 133-185
Reading: Chiu and Rawnsley 111-121; 193-202
Week 8: Voices from the Margins
⚫
Film Screening: Wawa No Cidai 太陽的孩子 (2015, dir. LosiaShumi)
⚫
Reading: Sun (TED); Chiu/Zhang (TED)
⚫
Reading: Poems (TED); Economist on Aborigines in the World (TED)
Week 9: Global Disparities and Instabilities
⚫
Film Screening: The Great Buddha 大佛普拉斯(dir. HuangHsin-yao, 2017)
⚫
⚫
Reading: Lin and Sang (TED)
Reading: Pei-chia Lan, Introduction to Raising Global Families
•
•
Readings from Texts to be used:
Shelley Rigger, Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (New
York: Rowman, 2011);
Emilie Yeh and Darrell Davis, Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island (New
York: Columbia UP, 2005);
•
As for this commentary, please discuss the ways the three major films e-screened over Weeks 7-9
deal with Japanese/Chinese/American (Hollywood) influences, in terms of film genres (state or
cold war propaganda, romance comedy, gangster film, noir and detective, and so on), narrative
technique, identity formation and political agency, global/local dialectics, minority rights, or
ecology and sustainability. Please draw on specific scenes to make your points.
1 commentary, weighing 10 points. Each entry (approximately 1000 words) should be precise and
concise, in providing substantial arguments about how the films go after (appropriate and
respond to) the empires – Japanese colonialism, Chinese cinema or Nationalist Party’s film policy,
and Hollywood film industry or world market.
Format: Please consult the latest edition of MLA Style Manual or MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers. You may
want to visit
MLA formatting website
at
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01 for guidance. Your commentary must be
typed, double-spaced with one-inch margin on all four sides of the page. You should proof-read
your writing carefully, making sure that there are no spelling, grammar, or punctuation mistakes,
before uploading it to TED.
Content: Your commentary must be written in your own words and based on your own findings;
plagiarism, plot summary, or paraphrase of a secondary source will not be tolerated. Please abide
the rules as outlined in the UCSD Policy on Academic Integrity published in the UCSD General
Catalog.
Please write a commentary in which you begin by stating a problematic (thesis) on Taiwan films,
then go on to frame Taiwan film/theme(s) you plan to analyze or compare, to examine textual
evidence in detail to support your argument, to draw on issues raised in class, and to conclude
with your creative insights.
Grading Criteria: You will be graded on (1) 4.0 points: originality in developing your textual
analysis and comparative perspective; (2)3.0 points: your command of our readings and
scholarships; and (3) 3.0 points: organization of your commentary and quality of writing.
First Paragraph: Introduction
⚫
1-3 sentences: Introduce three films that you are comparing: name of the films,
directors, plot, thematic concerns…
⚫ 4-6 sentences: historical background- When it is produced/domestic or
international politics*
⚫ Your thesis: comparing three films – what’s the similarities/differences (1 point
for structure/originality)
AND for the organization: Øorganization of your commentary and quality of writing
(3 Points total)
⚫
⚫
⚫
1 point: a thesis statement of the whole paper (End of the first paragraph)
1 point: an argument for each paragraph (First sentence of each paragraph)
1 point: the narrative of each paragraph follows a logical sequence : argument –
evidence – explanation of how the textual evidences support the argument –
conclusion
– 2nd and 3rd paragraph
⚫
1st sentence – your argument (structure )
⚫
2nd sentence – Reference to other scholars on this specific film or its genre/them
in relation to your argument (reference & originality)
⚫
3- 5 sentences – Textual evidences that support your argument: cinematography,
music, dialogues, motifs…(originality)
⚫
6- 8 sentences – Analysis: How do the textual details support your argument?
(originality & structure)
Grading Rubrics:
➢ organization of your commentary and
quality of writing (3 Points total)
⚫ 1 point: a thesis statement of the whole
paper (End of the first paragraph)
⚫ 1 point: an argument for each paragraph
(First sentence of each paragraph)
⚫ 1 point: the narrative of each paragraph
follows a logical sequence : argument –
evidence – explanation of how the textual
evidences support the argument –
conclusion
Grading Rubrics
➢ your command of our readings and
scholarships (3 points total)
⚫ Referencing the sources with proper intext citation: Last Name of the author
Page number – eg. (Berry 10). (1 Point)
⚫ Proper Work Cited/Bibliography at the
end of the paper (1 point)
⚫ Referencing at least two sources and
connect them to your own argument (1
point/0.5*2)
Grading Rubrics
➢ Originality (4 points total)
⚫ You have your own thesis & arguments
without plagiarizing (1 point)
⚫ Your thesis & arguments are critical- it is
based on detailed textual analysis:
Cinematography/music/dialogues…etc(1
point)
⚫ Your thesis& arguments have challenged
previous researchers (1 point)
⚫ Your thesis/arguments are sophisticated
(1 point)
Possible template
– First Paragraph: Introduction
⚫ 1-3 sentences: Introduce three films that
you are comparing: name of the films,
directors, plot, thematic concerns…
⚫ 4-6 sentences: historical backgroundWhen it is produced/domestic or
international politics*
⚫ Your thesis: comparing three films –
what’s the similarities/differences (1 point
for structure/originality)
Possible template – 2nd and 3rd paragraph
⚫ 1st sentence – your argument (structure )
⚫ 2nd sentence – Reference to other scholars
on this specific film or its genre/them in
relation to your argument (reference &
originality)
⚫ 3- 5 sentences – Textual evidences that
support your argument: cinematography,
music, dialogues, motifs…(originality)
⚫ 6- 8 sentences – Analysis: How do the
textual details support your argument?
(originality & structure)
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Australia’s economy is still booming, but politics is a cause for
concern
Political in ghting could harm the economy, says Edward McBride
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he last time Australia su ered a recession, the Soviet Union still existed and the world wide web did not. An
American-led force had just liberated Kuwait, and almost half the world’s current population had not yet been
born. Unlike most of its region, Australia was left unscathed by the Asian crash of 1997. Unlike most of the developed
world, it shrugged o the global nancial crisis, and unlike most commodity-exporting countries, it weathered the
resources bust, too. No other rich country has ever managed to grow so steadily for so long (see chart 1). By that
measure, at least, Australia boasts the world’s most successful economy.
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Admittedly, as Guy Debelle of the Reserve Bank of Australia (rba, the central bank) points out, this title rests on the
statistical de nition of a recession as two consecutive quarters of decline. Had the 0.5% shrinkage of the fourth
quarter of 2008 been spread across half a year, he notes, there would be no record. Yet by other measures, Australia’s
economic performance is more remarkable still. Whereas many other rich countries have seen wages stagnate for
decades, Australia’s have grown strongly, albeit less steadily in recent years (see chart 2). In other words, a problem
that has agitated policymakers—and voters—around the world, and has been blamed for all manner of political
upheaval, from European populism to the election of Donald Trump, scarcely exists in Australia.
And that is not the only way in which Australia stands out from its peers. At a time when governments around the
world are souring on immigration, and even seeking to send some foreigners home, Australia has been admitting as
many as 190,000 newcomers a year—nearly three times as many, relative to population, as America. Over 28% of the
population was born in another country, far more than in other rich countries. Half of all living Australians were born
abroad or are the child of someone who was.
In part, this tolerance for outsiders may be a re ection of another remarkable feature of Australian society: the
solvency of its welfare state. Complaints about foreign spongers are rare. Public debt amounts to just 41% of gdp (see
chart 3)—one of the lowest levels in the rich world. That, in turn, is a function not just of Australia’s enviable record in
terms of growth, but also of a history of shrewd policymaking. Nearly 30 years ago, the government of the day
overhauled the pension system. Since then workers have been obliged to save for their retirement through private
investment funds. The modest public pension covers only those without adequate savings.
Australia’s health-care system is also a public-private hybrid. The government provides coverage for all, by paying
clinics and hospitals a set fee for every procedure they perform. Those who want more than the most basic service
must pay a premium. The government encourages people to take out insurance to cover the gap between the
reimbursement it provides practitioners and the rates most of them charge the public. As with pensions, everyone
gets looked after, but the government bears only a relatively small proportion of the cost—an arrangement that
remains a distant dream in most rich countries.
Not all is perfect, of course. A common concern is that the economy relies too heavily on China, which is the biggest
buyer of Australian minerals, the biggest source of tourists and foreign students, even the biggest consumer of
Australian wine. People worry that if the Chinese economy falters, it will drag Australia’s down with it. Another fear,
somewhat at odds with the rst, is that China might try to use its economic power to blackmail Australia into
weakening its alliance with America.
There are glaring domestic problems, too. The appalling circumstances of many Aboriginals are a national
embarrassment, and the failure to answer their political grievances compounds the rancour. Even more alarmingly,
global warming is making an already gruelling climate harsher. Rainfall, never reliable, is scarcer and more erratic in
many farming regions. Over the past two years unusually hot water has killed a third of the coral on the Great Barrier
Reef, one of the country’s greatest natural treasures.
In theory both the governing Liberal-National coalition (which is right-of-centre) and the main opposition, the leftleaning Labor Party, are committed to cutting emissions of greenhouse gases. But in practice climate change has been
the subject of a never-ending political knife- ght, in which any government that attempts to enact meaningful curbs
is so pilloried that it either loses the next election or is toppled by a rebellion among its own mps.
Some see the failure to settle on a coherent climate policy as a symptom of a deeper political malaise. Australia used
to have long-lived governments. Between 1983 and 2007, just three prime ministers held o ce (Bob Hawke and Paul
Keating of Labor, and John Howard of the Liberals). Yet, since then, the job has changed hands six times. A full term is
only three years, but the last time a prime minister survived in o ce for a whole one was 2004-07. The assassins are
usually not voters, but fellow mps who dispatch their leader in hope of a boost in the polls. As part of the research for
this special report, your correspondent interviewed Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister at the time, who insisted
his position was secure. He had been sacked by his fellow Liberals before the interview could be written up.
The changes of pm have come so often that Madame Tussauds, a wax museum, has o cially given up trying to make
statues of the incumbent, who will inevitably have left o ce before a likeness is ready. The constant revolution is not
just fodder for comedians; it also makes consistent policymaking much harder. For those who consider Australia’s
unequalled economic performance the result, at least in part, of far-sighted decisions made 30 years ago, the current
choppy politics seem like a harbinger of decline.
This special report will try to explain Australia’s enviable record, and ask how long its good fortune can last. Is it
adopting the reforms needed to keep the economy bounding ahead? Will it have to choose between China and
America? Is the current generation of politicians up to the job? Is Australia, in short, as lucky a country as its
nickname suggests, or is its current streak coming to an end?
Correction (November 2nd 2018): The original version of this story said that when Australia last experienced a recession,
the internet did not exist. We got our history wrong. That should have been a reference to the world wide web. Sorry.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “The wonder down under”
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Australia’s economy is still booming, but politics is a cause for concern
Diversity helped Australia weather the resources bust
Clever reforms 30 years ago helped Australia’s growth
Australian politicians fear having to choose between America and China
Australia takes in far more immigrants than other rich countries, with less friction
The condition of indigenous Australians is a national disgrace
Harsher weather threatens more than just the Australian environment
Poisonous politics could spell an end to Australia’s winning streak
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