Metropolis: Day 3 (Conclusion)

As we watch the last part of Metropolis, continue taking notes about your chosen paper topic. See previous posts for materials/links for secondary sources. Here are a few more:

The Magic of Metropolis (web article/blog)
1927 Magazine Looks at Metropolis (Smithsonian web article)
Fantastic Explanations of Movie Trickery (web article)
Visual Themes and Special Effects in Metropolis (web article/blog)
Suit Acting and Android Fashion (web article)
Theatre's Great Influence on the Set Design and Acting (web article/blog)
Mise-en-Scene in Metropolis (web article)
Observations on Film Art (web article)
Expressionist Mise-en-Scene in Metropolis (web article)
Structures of Narrativity in Metropolis (article)
The Full Metropolis: Footage Restored to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (NY Times Article)

For scholarly articles and resources (which you should use...) check out Google scholar.

Chicago Style: Footnotes; for this paper, you may use Chicago Style footnotes (see link) instead of MLA formatted citations to reference when you are citing a source. Remember that when you report information you had to look up (not common knowledge, your own experience or ideas, or something you didn't know before you looked it up), you need to cite your source!

How to Footnote a Website

• Visit the website for which the footnote is being created.
• Locate (if possible) the name of the web page author. Write down the name of the website, the date the information was published online, the site URL and the date that you visited the page.
• List the recorded information in order, using commas. MLA format example: John Smith, “The Hot Summer Sidewalk,” 2009, http://www.thehotsidewalk.com (accessed September 25, 2010).
• Note whether or not the website has a date of publication by using “n.d.” to signify “no date”.

NOTE: Only one sentence is used in a Footnote or Endnote citation, i.e., only one period or full stop is used at the end of any Footnote or Endnote citation. In a Bibliography, each citation consists of a minimum of three statements or sentences, hence each entry requires a minimum of three periods, e.g., a period after the author statement, a period after the title statement, and a period after the publication statement (publication/publisher/publication date).

I should expect to see at least 3 secondary sources that you use in your 3-5 page research paper. Remember that the first 3 sources cannot include Wikipedia.

HOMEWORK: None.