This document provides guidance for students completing a small scale research project (SSRP) as part of an A2 Film Studies course. It outlines the components of the SSRP, which are a research catalogue and presentation script. It describes various topics students can choose for their research, such as studying a star/performer, genre, auteur, social/cultural issues, gender, ethnicity, institutions, or technology. The document then gives examples and helps students brainstorm initial topic ideas. It provides direction for refining topics, referencing research, and finding relevant sources to answer their research question.
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Research Project: Research Paper or Final Project
6-8 pages, regular font, double-spaced, ~1500 words, MLA format for Works Cited section.
Schedule
– Hardcopy of short proposal due in class
– Attend the Research Workshop today with Jill Luedke—meet at Tuttleman Learning Center Room 08 (Lower Level)
- Hardcopy of Bibliography due in class
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- Research Paper or Final Project due in class
- You will select an object to research and investigate in depth. In your paper you will describe the object, situate the object in terms art history and in terms of issues of race, identity, and/or the American experience; and you will assesses significance of the object in terms of meaning and/or function within its socio-political and historical context. You will compile a bibliography of at least 10 sources. You will each be completing two peer-reviews and also have a draft of your paper reviewed by two other students before the due date. You may not turn in your paper until a draft has been reviewed by two of your peers and you have made the necessary edits and changes.
1. Proposal
a. Brainstorm and make a list of what has interested you this semester.
i. Go over your notes and readings.
ii. Think about your visits to art museums or galleries.(answer: Philadelphia art museum)
iii. What works of art did you look at for your group presentation?(answer: Africa American history)
iv. Which artists and filmmakers meant the most to you in this class?
b. Narrow down your list to a few works of art that address the issues that interest you the most. For some of you the ideas or issues will guide you, and for others, the work of art will take priority.
c. Ask yourself a question about the one work of art that interests you the most.
d. Submit a proposal for your research paper or art project that addresses a question about a specific work of art. You only need to write a few sentences, but you must state your question and identify a specific work of art according to artist, title, and date.
2. Bibliography - Submit a bibliography with at least 10 sources in Chicago or MLA format. This is perhaps twice as many of the sources you actually end up citing in your paper. You may use the articles from the course readings. Here are examples of sources I will accept:
a. The work of art
b. A book that talks about the object or artist at length
c. Articles and books on theory or analysis that have already been written.
d. Many essays are published as chapters in anthologies. Anthologies are frequently very good sources since you get a nice group of essays by different scholars all on the same topic.
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At the beginning of this week, I felt finding references for my research paper was a little bit difficult. My topic is “women in mass media” and my research question is “Why women are affected by the media the most?” I tried to search articles that were related to my research question through Cypress Library, Gale Literary Sources, and I found two articles from this source. They are “Selling the self: women and the feminine seduction of advertising” of Kristine Blair and “Gender Issues in Advertising Language” of Nancy Artz. In addition, I also did another searching on other resources and found one more article that was “The Role of the Media in Body Image Concerns Among Women: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental and Correlational Studies” of Shelly Grabe. Overall, there was nothing resource that I thought it was the least helpful this week. However, I thought the Gale Literary Sources of Cypress Library was most helpful for me because it provided me two articles. During finding sources, I used keywords, such as “women”, “media effects”, and “advertising”, and I refined my keywords as I went along. Moreover, I also found more keywords, such as “meta-analysis” and “body image”. The database provided the most material for my topic was the result of the experiment in the article “The Role of the Media in Body Image Concerns Among Women: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental and Correlational Studies”. I did not find sources from credible Internet sources. According to these article, I was able to find specific statistics to add to my essay. My impression overall of my research experience is writing a research paper is not easy and requires the writer to take time and follow the procedure to achieve it.
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2. What is a small scale research
project?
It is made up of two items:
1. A research catalogue (approx 1000 words). This consists of
all the research you have used to answer your question/
topic…films, academic books, magazine articles, internet
articles, reviews, interviews, DVD commentaries
2. A presentation script (approx 1500 words) This takes the
form of bullet points, notes and needs to be visualised by
the reader. It’s what you would say if you were doing the
presentation to a group of people. Your script needs to
make reference to your catalogue throughout.
See the example to help you understand.
3. What is the SSRP?
• It is designed to develop your research skills.
• It will be based on ONE focus film and reference 2 other
related films
• It will fit under one of the following topics:
• Star/ performer
• Genre
• Auteur (in it’s broader sense)
• Social, political and cultural studies
• Gender issues
• Ethnicity
• Institution
• Technology (Let’s go through these in a bit more detail)
4. Star/ Performer
A consideration of star/ performer or performance as a
significant element of making meaning. The investigation may
focus on a particular star or group of performers.
Eg
The characteristics of Helena Bonham Carter’s performance
across different directors.
5. Genre
This context sees genre as a structuring and encoding device
that positions the audience expectation of a film text.
Eg
The shaping of the gangster genre by the films of Martin
Scorcese
Becoming Cult: A study into how films are branded ‘cult’
6. Auteur
Any individual who leaves a ‘signature’ (production/ meaning)
on a film. Could also consider the collaborative auteur (two or
more- eg Scorcese and De Niro. Could also be the ‘institutional’
auteur (eg studio) eg the comedies of Ealing Studios are a good
example of this.
Other examples:
Consistent themes in the films of Christopher Nolan
Wes Anderson as an auteur
7. Social, political and cultural
studies
Allows the investigation of the context of production.
Eg
Exploration of white collar crime on Wall Street
Representation of social class in British film
Did 9/11 change the way villains in Marvel films are
represented?
8. Gender issues
Allows the study of gendered films or gendered film making.
Issues of sexuality, gender, representation can be explored
either singularly or through a comparative approach.
Eg
Representation of women in James Bond films
Kathryn Bigelow’s approach to the contemporary horror film.
Representation of drag in film 1930 to present day.
9. Ethnicity
Maybe explored through diverse approaches including analysing
the representations within a film and issues around those
making a film.
Eg
Growing up in black, urban American: Representations of life in
the hood.
How sport films reflect the social situation in America.
The changing representation of young black men in British film.
10. Institution
Engages with issues of industry that may have come up at AS.
Production contexts such as issues around finance, producing,
law, regulation, distribution, exhibition and governmental
influence over film making are all valuable areas.
Eg
Disney’s influence on Pixar studio films
11. Technology
This contexts encompasses all the constructional devices in
cinema, from production through to distribution and exhibition
methods. This could be the introduction of surround sound, the
implication of digital exhibition, the development of CGI in
animation…
Eg
The development of CGI in animation and it’s impact on
audiences
12. Your initial ideas…
Now we have gone through the frameworks you
might find you have a couple of ideas for one/ two
or more of them.
Jot them down on the sheet (with possible films?)
You don’t have to stick to them- they are just early
ideas.
13. Lesson 2: Refining your ideas/ topic
You are going to spend the lesson today thinking a bit more
carefully about the topic you are most interested in researching.
You can use the internet (there might also be books in the
cupboard in S8) to help you.
Today you need to try and decide:
1. A topic and possible title
2. 3 films and why you have chosen to use them.
3. A general outline/ plan about how you might structure your
topic/ question
14. Lesson 3: Referencing different
types of research
You will learn how to research material using a variety of
different methods:
• Theoretical research- uses the research completed by others.
This may be: reading other people’s theories, watching
documentaries, visiting websites.
• Empirical research- this is based on observation or
experiment. This may be: preparing and distributing a
questionnaire, watching an audience when they are watching
a film.
• Primary research- you are active in forming a piece of original
research (interviews, focus groups, questionnaires)
• Secondary research- any research that someone else has
completed (books, articles, documentaries, websites)
15. You can use these research methods to
gain different types of information
Quantitative: These findings will be centred on numbers. For
example, it will be how many people think Uma Thurman in Kill
Bill is a positive female representation.
Qualitative: These findings are based on quality, detailed
content. For example it could be a quote from someone about
Uma Thurman. The someone could be an academic, a
respondent in your focus group or questionnaire.
16. How to reference research (see
blog)
Harvard referencing
http://heathenmedia.co.uk/smallscaleresearchproject/
17. How to research key, relevant
material
Last lesson we learnt how to reference research material. Why is
it VITAL that you do this?
Today we are going to understand HOW to research. So how to
select key, relevant material that will help you answer your
specific question/ topic.
18. Using the contents page
Where would you go
to find about:
1. Economic migrants
in British film?
2. An essay about
Eden Lake?
19. Use the INDEX page
Where can you find
out something about
Richard Curtis?
How about The
Descent?
20. Onceyouhavefoundthe right page/ chapter/
essay…
You don’t have to read the whole thing.
You need to skim and scan to select the relevant material for
your topic. Some of it won’t be important.
Highlight the relevant information so it stands out on the page.
You can also annotate the margin to help you.
Read/ skim page 1 of the Fight Club essay and answer the
following questions:
1. How is Marla Singer described?
2. How does the narrator’s opinion of Marla change during
the film?
Select and highlight the relevant information.
21.
22. Creating your own mini research
project in groups.
Task 1. Use the research material I have given you to skim and
highlight relevant information to help you answer the given topic title.
Group 1: The characteristics of Helena Bonham Carter’s performance
across different directors. (Star/ performer)
Group 2: Representations of the black male in British film (Ethnicity)
Group 3: The representation of women in contemporary horror films
(Gender)
Group 4: Richard Linklater (Auteur study)
Ext: Have a go at
referencing the
material you use
correctly.
23. Mini research project cont…
Task 2: Add to the research you collected last lesson! Use other
research methods, for example the internet, books, magazines,
your own quantitative research to prepare a power point
presentation, annotated catalogue and presentation script
based on your topic title (see the sheet to help you work
through this.)
You have 4/5 lessons to complete this task.
Task 3: Present your research project to the class.