18 April 2011

Art websites

http://www.artspan.com/
http://www.wga.hu/
http://www.moma.org/
http://www.nga.gov/onlinetours/index.shtm
http://www.gallery-worldwide.com/
http://artgallery.yale.edu/

Some Sites for Film Research

*Internet Movie Database provides detailed information on films:
*Screensite provides data on films, film conferences, archives, and useful links to other academic sites:
*Film.com features reviews, movie clips, recent news, articles, and a calendar of upcoming events:
*History on/and/in/Film contains conference papers and scholarly essays on a range of film history topics:
*American Film Institute offers recent industry news, events, educational seminars, and reviews:
*The Media and Communications Study Site list resources and links to a variety of topics and bibliographies in film studies, including gender studies, different national cinemas, and central theoretical debates:
*A good site on popular culture
*General film research site

11 April 2011

You need a place for a thesis statement? Well here you go.

Remember that a thesis statement is an answer to your research question and should be based on evidence that you have gained through, at the very least, viewing and analyzing the film. It should not spring fully formed from the ether. That is, don't just make it up and expect that you can change it whenever you want. Remember that your thesis statement should come out of your research, your research should not come out of the thesis statement.
So post your thesis statement as a comment to this post.

If you need any help picking out the phrasing for your thesis statement I've provided the good old fashioned "Toulmin model". The Toulmin model is a way of presenting an argument linguistically so that it is both clear to the reader as well as useful in setting up the structure of the paper. Anyway, here you are.

08 April 2011

Research Question

Ok all, it's time that we start on the first part of the paper. I know that for some of you the research question is coming up pretty quickly. It's Monday and Tuesday for quite a few. So, here's how we'll do it for the time being. Post your research question as a comment on this blog post and we'll take it from there.

Remember....Jimmy Stewart is watching you!