General Comments

In general the project papers are improving. Students are beginning to look beyond the question and basic topic – in this case martial arts films – and understanding how they reflect larger issues of identity and understandings of the past. It is important that you develop a healthy distance as a viewer of the film. This will allow you to view the film as a ‘text’, that needs to be interpreted beyond what is simply put on the screen.

Double tick: 85%

Analysis on the "construction of identity" along the lines of Hayden White's "Tropes" or Benedict Anderson's "imagined communities"

Tick plus: 75%

 A realization that Martial Arts are not specific to Asia.

Your answer often questioned "Asian values"?  

Addresses how, you, the AUDIENCE is affected after watching these films. Playing on the emotions, etc.

Your answer provided a deeper examination of how identity can be manipulate, while analysing stereotypes and misrepresentations. Were these films debunking or reaffirming?

Tick: 65% 

You managed to describe the importance of fighting off the Japanese, Russians, (Americans +Australians = Westernization?) as a metaphor of fighting for a national identity.

Martial Arts helped instill a common identity.

There are "Asian values" (like perseverance and discipline, attached to Martial Arts). But this raises an important point: the most prominent villains in the film were “Asian”. Many failed to understand the implications of this. What does this say about an “Asian” identity?

As prompted in the lecture, gave a historical background of Hong Kong in the 1970s and Thailand in the 1990s without going into the SIGNIFICANCE of these two periods.

Tick minus: 55%

We have all seen the films and heard the lectures. There is no need to narrate the plots for us or repeat the lectures. You need to look beyond these basic presentations for a deeper meaning within the films, and ask why they were presented at this time and what they say about the themes in the module.  

0% - Zero Points

You did not hand in your paper.