Dec 18th ：Reading Journal No.2 Due

Write a 500- 800 word reading journal (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around; refer to MLA format style; see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/675/01/) focusing on assigned reading for the previous month (assignment for Nov 6^th to review readings till Week 4; Dec 18^th to review readings between Week) 7-10). Don’t be overly concerned with grammar (although spell-check will be helpful!), but do put a lot of thinking into your reading journals since they will be key to fruitful discussions in class and even your final paper.

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Week 12 Dec 18th Readings

Week 12 Dec 18^th 

Required Readings:

Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin, “Film Genres”, Film Art: an introduction (7^th edition), University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, p108-127

Knee, Adam. “the Pan-Asian Outlook of the Eye”, Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema,

Lim, Bliss Cua. “Generic Ghosts: Remaking the New ‘Asian Horror Film’”, Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema: No Film Is An Island. ed. Gina Marchetti and Tan See Kam, London and New York: Routledge, 2007

NOTE: you will have printouts of these 3 readings in class.

Reference Readings:

Xu,Gary. “Remaking Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood”, Senses of Cinema. Feb.2005, Issue 34. < http://sensesofcinema.com/2005/feature-articles/remaking_east_asia/>

THIRD CINEMA

WEEK 10 DEC 4^TH       

Film for Discussion: Memories of Underdevelopment, Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968

NOTE: NO in-class screenings (available at YouTube with English subtitle)

^{LINK  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PS0A_chbc}

Required Readings:

Fernando, Solanas and Gettino, Octavio.　”Towards a Third Cinema” In Film and Theory: An Anthology. Eds. Stam, Robert and Toby Miller. Malden: Blackwell, 2000. p265-286.

Reference Readings:

Gabriel, Teshome H. “Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films”, In Film and Theory: An Anthology. Eds. Stam, Robert and Toby Miller. Malden: Blackwell, 2000. P 298-316

NOTE: the readings will be distributed to you in class on Nov 27th