a research paper on a Taiwan film or director around one of the following possible topics:

film option:

A Borrowed Life ?? (dir. Wu Nien-jen, 1994),
Beautiful Duckling ???? (dir. Li Xin, 1965)

Terrorizers ???? (dir. Edward Yang, 1986)

What Time is It There ??????(dir. Tsai Ming-iang, 1999)

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

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

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

Viva Tonal: The Dance Age ???? (dir. Kuo Chen-ti, 2003)

Or director option: Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-iang, Ang Lee

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.

Paper 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 paper must be typed, double-spaced with one-inch margin on all four sides of the page. ?Please staple your 5-6 pages of text followed by a works cited page. You should proof-read your writing carefully, making sure that there are no spelling, grammar, or punctuation mistakes.