Final Paper Notes/Picks

Here are my picks for best papers with a pro and con for each.

1 - "Going Around the World in The Lady from Shanghai: Transmedia Adaptation in the Work of Orson Welles"
        Pro - uses unpublished archival material, interesting look at adaptation
        Con - Orson Welles has been written about often

2 - "The Blues Brothers and Bollywood Masala Cinema"
        Pro - original
        Con - takes awhile to get into its point, connection to masala

3 - "Irreversible and Techniques of Looking"
       Pro - look beyond the obvious subjects of eroticism/pornography to focus on the technical aspects                    
      and how they presented difficult subject matter
      Con - there was a paper about rape at last years festival

4 - "The Unfilmable Lightness of Being..."
        Pro - interesting subject, well researched
        Con - not a particularly easy read, have to focus to really follow it, not as engrossing as others

5 - "A Radical Expedition of Cinema's Birthplace: Popular Cinema, the Avent-Garde...."
       Pro - topical, current
       Con - mostly uses a basic film source (Gunning)

6 - "Boys Will Be Girls: How Alice Guy Challenged a Male Dominated Industry...."
       Pro - not widely written about
       Con - read like more of a book report, transitions need work

7 - "Tradition of Modern: Cinematic Expression of Ghosts in Japanese Films"
       Pro - flows well, easy to read
       Con - more of a summary/comparison of films, doesn't make a clear point/conclusion

8 - "Murders Unavenged: A Brief Look Into the Realism of the Police Procedural"
       Pro - well written
       Con - defining a genre rather than having an argument

9 - ""Cinema Du Corps and Avant Garde Cinematography..."
       Pro - good to have a paper on the avant garde
       Con - relies too heavily on sources, not enough original thought

10 - "The Active Viewer : Use of Multi-Screen Projection...."
        Pro - interesting content, shows the variety of the medium of film
        Con - more informative and personal opinion than using research to make a point

11 - "13 Ways of Looking at Bill Murray"
         Pro - crowd pleaser
         Con - more website article than scholarly paper

12 - "Pied Piper vs Faun: Storybooks ...."
        Pro - considers a lot of sources
        Con - unoriginal