Feng Xiaogangs films serve as a powerful medium for social commentary in contemporary China, utilizing a combination of humor, allegory, and subtle subversion to critique issues and humanity, while simultaneously adhering to censorship constraints.
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The slides presented your research questions and thesis well. Here are some suggestions for your final paper and future presentations. 1. Key terms: on slides 1, 3, 4, you used terms like social commentary and social issues when talking about Fengs films. And those are the key terms that you keep referring to during your presentation. Please elaborate what you mean by social commentary and articulate more on what social issues Feng criticizes in his films when you first introduce your topic and key thesis. 2. Literature review: you have engaged with existing scholarship when introducing three phases on slide 7. Do you agree with this scholars reading of Fengs career? If so, why? Are those three phases overlapped or not? You have included some good articles and chapters for your research. Your reader would want to know how you engage with those scholarships in your paper. Thesis: it would be better to introduce and analyze how Feng utilizes cinematic language to make his subversive social commentary for both films. You can select one or two scenes from either film to analyze. 3. Citations: please note to use Chicago or MLA style for your citations, and make sure that you include publishers info there too.
