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FYSP 086 Contemporary East Asian Cinemas

This course guide facilitates a workshop that prepares students in FYSP 086 for their final research paper.

Article Types

Articles are works of writing published in serial or periodical publications; this includes scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, but also trade publications, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, blogs, and more!

An assortment of rectangles.Scholarly Articles

Scholarly articles are written by experts in academic or professional fields, and are published in journals for specific academic disciplines.

An assortment of squares.Peer-reviewed Articles

Peer-reviewed articles are scholarly articles that have been reviewed and vetted by experts in the field. Because these reviewers specialize in the same scholarly area as the author, they are considered the author’s peers (hence “peer review”).

An assortment of quadrilaterals.Popular sources

are written for a general audience, and are intended to inform readers on various topics, such as news, current interest, business, and entertainment. These sources can be useful for finding background information, or for identifying topics for further research.
Examples of popular sources include:
  • Newspapers, and online news sources
  • Magazines
  • Best-selling nonfiction
  • Consumer-oriented websites 
When used to document historical events, cultural practices, or public opinion, popular sources may be valuable to researchers as primary source material.

Where to find peer-reviewed articles?

Use Search.Libraries to find books, journal articles, scores, audio, video, and more—all from a single integrated starting point. 
To find peer-reviewed articles in Search.Libraries, you can:
  • Apply the Articles pre-filter before searching
  • Filter results by Resource Type > Articles
  • Filter results by Availability > Scholarly & Peer-Reviewed Journals
  • Note the purple marker for Peer-Reviewed articles!

Is this article/journal peer-reviewed?

McCorkle, Brooke. “Stuff That Dreams Are Made of: Music and the Future in Wong Kar-Wai’s Chungking Express (1994).” Norient Academic Online Journal, 5 July 2013, norient.com/academic/the-future-in-chungking-express.

This article is
scholarly and peer-reviewed.: 0 votes (0%)
scholarly, but not peer-reviewed.: 9 votes (81.82%)
neither scholarly nor peer-reviewed.: 2 votes (18.18%)
Total Votes: 11

Cooper, Brian. “Oldboy' Is an Unflinching Look at Human Nature.” Cinema Faith, 13 June 2019, cinemafaith.com/reviews/oldboy-2003/.

This article is
scholarly and peer-reviewed.: 0 votes (0%)
scholarly, but not peer-reviewed.: 0 votes (0%)
neither scholarly nor peer-reviewed.: 9 votes (100%)
Total Votes: 9

Bordeleau, Erik. “The World without Future: Stage as Entrapment in Jia Zhangke’s Film.” China Review, vol. 10, no. 2, fall 2010, pp. 155–76. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23462334.

This article is
scholarly and peer-reviewed.: 9 votes (90%)
scholarly, but not peer-reviewed.: 0 votes (0%)
neither scholarly nor peer-reviewed.: 1 votes (10%)
Total Votes: 10
Cardullo, R. J. "The Space of Time, the Sound of Silence: Tsai Ming-Liang’s What Time Is It There?" Teaching Sound Film, Sense Publishers, 2016, pp. 273–81. Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9_30.
This book chapter is
scholarly and peer-reviewed.: 2 votes (16.67%)
scholarly, but not peer-reviewed.: 7 votes (58.33%)
neither scholarly nor peer-reviewed.: 3 votes (25%)
Total Votes: 12
Which of the following journals is NOT peer-reviewed?
Senses of Cinema: 0 votes (0%)
Cinéaste: 2 votes (100%)
Film Comment: 0 votes (0%)
Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies: 0 votes (0%)
Journal of Chinese Cinemas: 0 votes (0%)
Jump Cut: a review of contemporary media: 0 votes (0%)
Film Quarterly: 0 votes (0%)
positions: asia critique: 0 votes (0%)
Intra-Asia Cultural Studies: 0 votes (0%)
Total Votes: 2