Readings for Week 14★Jan 8th Circulating Images in the Global Era: International Film Festival Network

Required Readings

Julian Stringer, “Global Cities and International Film Festival Economy,” Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context, ed.　Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice, London: Blackwell, 2001, 134–44

[distributed on Dec 18]

Thompson, Kristine & Bordwell, David, 2010. “Toward a Global Film Culture”, Film History: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, p694-712

[distributed on Dec 18]

Reference Readings

Featherstone, Mike. “Global Culture: An Introduction”, Theory, Culture & Society, June 1990, No.7: 1-14

[distributed on Dec 18]

Readings for Week 12★Dec 18th City & Cinema II: Hiroshima

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Required Readings 

James Tweedie, “Walking in the City”, The Age Of New Waves: Art Cinema And The Staging Of Globalization, Oxford University Press, 2013, p83-128———CHANGED TO

Robert, Musil. “Monuments”, Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, 1936 

[would distributed in class on Dec 11]

Mercken-Spaas, Godelieve “Destruction and Reconstruction in Hiroshima, Mon Amour”, Literature/Film Quarterly, 1980 Vol. 8, No. 4, p244-250

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Moses, John W., “Vision Denied in Night and Fog and Hiroshima Mon Amour”. Literature Film Quarterly. 1987, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p159-163

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Readings for Week 10★Dec 4th

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City & Cinema I: Tokyo, or Elsewhere

Required Reading

Roland Barthes, "The Semiology and the Urban" in Neil Leach,. Rethinking Architecture. (New York & London: Routledge, 1997): 166-172

[distributed in class Nov 26]

Yomota, Inuhiko, “Stranger than Tokyo: Space and Race in Postnational Japanese Cinema”, Jenny Kwok Wah Lau eds. Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press

[distributed in class Nov 26]

Secondary Reading

Catherine Russell (2002) “Tokyo, The Movie”, Japan Forum, 14:2, 211-224, DOI:

10.1080/09555800220136365

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Film for Discussion: Ghost in the Shell, Dir. Oshii Mamoru, 1995

[available at YouTube]

PDF notes for Rethinking Documentary Cinema: But what is Documentary Anyway?

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readings for Rethinking Documentary Cinema: Documentary Evidence, Memory and Trauma

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Dear all, the readings are for Week 6 (Nov 6)& Week 7 (Nov 13)

Rethinking Documentary Cinema: Documentary Evidence, Memory and Trauma

Required Reading

Roe, Annabelle Honess. “The Evolution of Animated Documentary”, New Documentary Ecologies: Emerging Platforms, Practices And Discourses, edited by Kate Nash, Craig Hight & Catherine Summerhayes, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, p174-191

[will be distributed on Nov 6]

Steward, G. (2010). “Screen Memory in Waltz with Bashir”. Film Quarterly, 63(3), 58–62. http://doi.org/10.1525/FQ.2010.63.3.58

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Landesman, O., & Bendor, R. (2011). “Animated Recollection and Spectatorial Experience in Waltz with Bashir”. Animation, 6(3), 353–370. http://doi.org/10.1177/174684771141777

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screening event: YASUKUNI

We will have a special screening of YASUKUNI, a documentary (2008), by LI Ying.

Time/Venue:Nov 5 (Thurs) 4:30pm; Rm 131 

Japanese language, with English subtitle

everybody is welcome!!!

Excerpt from New York Times article on this film
For a viewer not steeped in Asian history and Japanese politics, Mr. Li’s oblique, cinéma vérité approach may be a little confusing at first. But the absence of narration or an expressed directorial point of view is central to the film’s achievement, which is to address a passionately contested snarl of issues with a calm, nuanced ethical curiosity. Both the defenders of Japanese imperial glory and the victims of Japanese expansionist barbarism are heard. And while Japanese conservatives were outraged by the film when it was released last year, Mr. Li’s patience with their side’s view might also cause queasiness among those who wish for more overt expressions of candor, contrition and indignation about Japan’s conduct during World War II.


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PDF notes on From National Cinema to Transnational Cinema II: Transnational Genres & the Discontents

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Week 5★Oct 30th Rethinking Documentary Cinema: But what is Documentary Anyway?

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Required Reading

Nichols, Bill. 2010. “How Can We Define Documentary Film”, Introduction To Documentary (second edition), Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press: 1-41

 [distributed in class on Oct 23]

Film for Discussion: Nanook of the North, Dir. Robert Flaherty, 1922

 NOTE： please WATCH IT PRIOR TO THE LECTURE

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