Assignment
Exercise 1: Evaluating Sources
Look at these six articles and decide which ones are scholarly. Click on this quiz to record your answers.
Article 1 "The Displaced Voice of In a Lonely Place," by J.P. Telotte
Article 2 In a Lonely Place," by Roger Ebert
Article 3 "In a Lonely Place: Paranoia in the Dream Factory," by James Palmer"
Article 4 "In a Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray"
Article 5 "Bogart's In a Lonely Place at the Film Forum," by J. Hoberman
Article 6 "Shadows on the Horizon: In a Lonely Place," by Fiona Villella
Exercise 2: Analyze Books
B 105 B64 K 76 Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway
HM 221 R47 Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information
HQ 1073 D55 Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
P 96 T42 S67 Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age
PN 1995.9 F 36 S5 Shadows of the Magic Lamp: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Film
PN 1997 A 312 The Making of Kubrick's 2001
PN 1998 A3 K743 Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze
PN 1998 A3 K746 Stanley Kubrick: A Film Odyssey
PR 830 S35 W48 Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction
PR 830 T3 H27 Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
Q 175 K 57 Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
QH 81 F88 FutureNatural: Nature, Science, Culture
Exercise 3: Searching for Articles
Use this GoogleDoc to record what you find during class.
Research Paper Options
Exercise 4: Proximity Searching
PROXIMITY SEARCHING Sometimes when you are searching a database, you find articles that have your search terms, but on separate pages of the article, only vaguely related to each other. In that case, the technique of Proximity searching would be helpful. Proximity searching allows you to search for documents that contain two search terms, in any order, within a specified number of words. Here is an example:
This search will retrieve articles in which the word diabetes appears within 5 words of the phrase clinical trials, whether diabetes comes first or after clinical trials.
Exercise 5: Citation Tracking
"Picturizing Race: Hollywood's Censorship of Miscegenation and Production of Racial Visibility through Imitation of Life"
Open Google Scholar in a new window. Copy and paste the name of these articles into Google Scholar. When the article listing appears, look for the words, "Cited by..." and click on it. This is a list of other articles that cite the first one, some of which may be on the same topic.
1. Screenwriting Strategies in Marguerite Duras's Script for Hiroshima, Mon Amour
2. Speak, Trauma: Toward a Revised Understanding of Literary Trauma Theory
3. Desire at Cross(-Cultural) Purposes: Hiroshima, mon amour and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
4. From Shoah to Holocaust: Image and Ideology in Alain Resnais's Nuit et brouillard and Hiroshima mon amour
5. Representation and Absence: Paradoxical Structure in Postmodern Texts
6. The Predication of Violence, the Violence of Predication: Reconstructing Hiroshima with Duras and Resnais
7. Vision Denied in Night and Fog and Hiroshima mon amour
8. Hiroshima, mon amour: From Iconography to Rhetoric
9. When Whiteness Feminizes …: Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic
10. Hiroshima, mon amour, Time, and Proust
11. 'Documenting' the National Past in French Film
12. Imitation of Life in a Segregated Atlanta: Its Promotion, Distribution and Reception
13. Divided Images: Black Female Spectatorship and John Stahl's Imitation of Life
14. Racial Etiquette and the (White) Plot of Passing: (Re)Inscribing 'Place' in John Stahl's Imitation of Life
15. Is Art Imitating Life? Communicating Gender and Racial Identity in Imitation of Life
16. Let It Pass: Changing the Subject, Once Again
