Please read the instruction on pp.3-4 from the syllabus to see what the requirement is.

Paper 3 (due 26th Nov. in my office before 2:00 p.m.)
Discuss how identity, reflexivity, trust, and insecurity are related to new information and communication technologies. The following questions are guiding questions, you do not need to answer all of them.

From MTV's Real World
1. How do participants in Real World experience trust and insecurity in reality shows?
2. How do different participants use reflexivity to maintain their identities? Focus on one or two participants and describe how they narrate the stories.
3. How does MTV Real World provide "mediated symbolic materials" (p. 145) for the participants to construct biographical narrative?

From Infernal Affairs
1. How is the ambiguity of the cop/thief identity experienced by Lau and Chan related to their sense of trust and insecurity?
2. How do Lau and Chan maintain their reflexive selves?
3. Do new communication technologies (such as cell phone, computer, stereo) help to maintain the identities of Lau and Chan? Or do technologies betray their identities? Why do new communication technologies create anxiety inside Lau and Chan?
4. Where are the dwellings of Lau and Chan? Are they a place, a person, or "things"?

Paper 2 (due 14th Nov. in class)
- I recommend you to work with another student on this paper.

Give examples from A trip to the moon, the Terminal, and You've Got Mail to illustrate at least four key terms learned under Topic 3 (globalisation, stretching, ... virtuality; there should be 10 of them in total).

- You are not required to have a thesis for this paper.
- For each of the key terms, you may define it briefly (one to two sentences quoted from Moores) but do NOT spend too much space on definition.
- You should use examples from all three films to illustrate the key terms. Do not focus on one film more than others.
- The following are some guiding questions, they will help you to think through the key terms. However, do not just merely answer the following questions without linking them back to the key terms. It is also not required that you answer all of them in the paper. Pick the ones that can be tied to the key terms in the most appropriate ways.

A trip to the moon
1. When A trip to the moon was made, France had colonies in Africa and Asia. How did the film illustrate the imagination and fantasy that the filmmakers had of the "unknown" lands and the inhabitants of foreign lands?
2. A trip to the moon was one of the first films made in human histories, how did the form of medium (film) alter older forms of media such as books and photographs? Focus on time-space relation.

The Terminal
1. How does the airport terminal promote consumption? How does consumption in the terminal help passengers to experience a different sense of time and space?
2. How does the cell phone function as a "connection" for the character Amelia (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones)? Why does the cell phone replace real human relationship for her?
3. What kind of space is Viktor (played by Tom Hanks) at? Why couldn't he go "home"? Does his home exist anymore? Is he in the U.S. yet? Why is his location ambiguous?
4. How does Viktor-someone coming from the "Third World"-act inappropriately in the terminal?
5. What kinds of flow are there in the airport? Does Viktor belong to part of the flow? What denies him as part of the flow?
6. Why is CNN an important vehicle to connect Viktor to his homeland?

You've Got Mail
7. In what ways do Joe (played by Tom Hanks) and Kathleen (played by Meg Ryan) cross path with each other?
8. How does the Internet allow Joe and Kathleen to extend their locale beyond home?
9. Why are Joe and Kathleen happy when there is the "you've got mail" note and why are they upset when there is no mail in the mailbox?
10. How does the Internet act as a phone to bring people closer to each other (p. 61)? How does the Internet fulfill Joe's and Kathleen's life in the way that real life can't? Why are both parties secretive about their online activities?
11. How does online chatting provide a "virtual co-presence" (p. 64) for Joe and Kathleen? Why was Kathleen frightened when Joe suggested that she must be online?

Paper 1 (due 10th Oct before 2:00 p.m. at my office; there is no class on that day)
- I recommend you to work with another student on this paper.

Analyse the narrative structure of the film Pulp fiction in relation to time.

- You need to have a thesis for your paper. The article from The New Yorker and the reading from Bordwell and Thompson may give you some inspirations. For example, a thesis such as: "Pulp Fiction challenges the audience to question the conventional Hollywood convention" will work.

- You may want to address one or more of the following three questions: (1) How is time represented in the film? (2) Why is time significant to the narrative? (3) What is the relation between the narrative structure and time?

- You must use some of the terms that we learned from Bordwell and Thompson (narrative, story, plot, plot/story/screen duration, omniscient/restricted narrative, narrator). The more is not better, you have to use those terms appropriately so that they will support your thesis and relate to "time".