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GOALS of ASSIGNMENT:
1. To create an opportunity to discover significant aspects of the “back story” of a
particular 1930s’ popular culture issue/phenomenon that intrigues you or, perhaps,
relates to your major.
2. To have an opportunity to further refine your experience and skills in the basics of
humanistic research and scholarly argumentation, i.e., framing a worthy research
question (or hypothesis); searching for and locating credible sources pertinent to
supporting your argument (or theme); organizing the evidence; building the case; and
summarizing the evidence supporting the paper’s research question/hypothesis.
3. To become better acquainted with the resources of Watson Library (and other libraries,
archives, and collections), as well as credible digital sources.
4. To become more productive citizens by acquiring a firmer grip on the basic tools and
protocols of practical research (entailing the rigorous and systematic organization and
dissemination of your investigatory results) that will enlarge both your professional
and personal horizons.
Knowledge will help us attain our goals only if we are able to adequately access and
interpret it. In a thriving and healthy democracy, we need to know how to acquire as well as
check, weigh and evaluate the facts for ourselves.
PREAMBLE:
The “Research Project” will allow you to savor some of the substantive literature on a topic pertinent to American Popular Culture of the 1930s. You are required to use at least six (i.e., 6) separate sources. These sources must include at least four (or more) authoritative articles from scholarly books and/or academic journals, plus two (or more) authoritative contemporary reviews or commentaries, and, possibly, other credible sources such as expert-written liner notes for compact disc anthologies, DVD collections, etc.
RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC PROPOSAL AND DUE DATE (due to your GTA-Mentor, in-class, Wednesday, February 27th):
To insure that your paper is suitable in terms of topic and scope, and that you have a workable hypothesis, you will need to submit a paper proposal (20 possible points or 5% of final grade on the course’s 400 possible points grading system) consisting of:
*a clear, comprehensive and yet brief statement specifying your subject and working title and the reason/s that you’ve selected it [5 possible points];
*a clear statement of your working hypothesis (i.e., the basic argument that your paper seeks to make; e.g., “In this paper, I will argue how Jack Benny’s 1930’s career was boosted by his ability to ‘amplify’ his persona through the synergies of radio and film”; or, “In this
paper, I will argue how during the 1930s classical music might also be considered
popular music due to classical music’s mass media exposure and promotion [e.g., the establishment of Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony Orchestra and/or Disney’s incorporation of classical music in the Silly Symphonies and/or Fantasia]; or, “In this paper, I will argue how enforcement of the motion picture industry’s Production Code resulted in substantive thematic and stylistic changes in the genre of the fallen woman film of the early-1930s as discussed by Andrew Bergman“) [10 possible points];
*sources (i.e., a listing of the “key texts” that you’ve thus far examined including the 6 required sources that you plan to use, as well as any and all films, recordings, radio transcriptions, novels, paintings, etc., which, although won’t count as “key texts,” nonetheless might be central to your paper) [5 possible points].
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FORMAT for RESEARCH PAPER:
* Title page with your name, KUID#, title of paper (which should include the paper’s basic subject), the title and number of class (e.g., FMS 380, American Popular Culture of the 1930s), and date of submission (i.e., April 17, 2013).
* Brief introduction to the topic (about 100-125 words) in which you clearly state your basic hypothesis or argument, i.e., what you are going to “prove” or “demonstrate” and how you are going to do it (and, perhaps, what you are not going to cover, thereby specifying the scope or limits of your study)
* Presentation of your research findings (about 1,000 words) in which you develop the paper’s argument by judiciously setting forth its crucial points and the evidence gleaned from you research supporting those points (i.e., what the articles, books and/or reviews have to say in support of your theme or hypothesis). Here, you might also want to include something about your sources’ critical and methodological assumptions and limitations (again, your sources should be substantive and drawn from top-tier, highly authoritative publications or publishers). Said another way, this is where you compare, contrast, organize and synthesize the evidence provided by the pertinent sources you have marshaled in support of your argument.
* Conclusion (about 100-150 words) in which you succinctly wrap things up with a “final argument” or closing statement summarizing your case. You may also want to very briefly speculate on the implications and, perhaps, limitations of your work by mentioning, for example, suggestions for further research.
* Source citations and other style matters should conform to recommendations specified by a recent edition of either the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (the standard style arbiter of the Department of Film and Media Studies) or Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (based on the University of Chicago Press’s Manual of Style).
SUGGESTIONS FOR SUITABLE TOPICS:
* A study of an economic and/or technological phenomenon such as the introduction of the synchronized sound film; the impact of the sound film on musicians (perhaps on silent film orchestra musicians, or Hollywood’s new cadre of studio musicians, or swing/popular music players); the introduction/popularization of national network radio; the symbiotic corporate growth and conglomeration among popular culture/mass media companies; etc.;
* A study of a particular film or radio genre such as the gangster film; the G-man film; the Hollywood musical; the woman’s picture (or a subgenre such as “the fallen woman” film”; the radio soap opera; the radio comedy/variety show; etc.;
* A study of an artistic movement and/or innovation such as American regionalist painting; Big Band Swing; Art Deco; the rise of the tenor saxophone as a primary improvising “voice” in jazz, especially the Kansas City style; Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre (in either its radio or theatrical manifestation); etc.;
* A study of a sociological/political relationship between film (or radio, or popular music) and society as revealed in, for example, Warner Bros. gangster films; Tin Pan Alley Depression-themed tunes; radio drama; Broadway drama; government sponsored arts projects such as the Post Office mural paintings, or the Federal Theatre Project; etc.;
* A study of the artistic contributions of a specific filmmaker, musician, novelist, painter, playwright or journalist (here, the emphasis should be solely on artistic accomplishments and/or innovations made during the 1930s, not a blow-by-blow career biography).
Again, in preparing the Research Project, your principal resources will be scholarly books and academic journals, periodical literature of the day such as articles and/or reviews from top newspapers and magazines, and other such authoritative commentaries. Please keep in mind that you are preparing a carefully organized academic paper rather than an impressionistic “reaction” to an individual film, radio show, or pop culture personality.
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