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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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

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4kOIzMqso0

readings for Week 4★Oct 23rd From National Cinema to Transnational Cinema II: Transnational Genres & the Discontents

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Reminder: the Screening of the Ring would take place on Oct 16, starting from 4:30pm at Rm 131;

attendance will be taken

Required Reading

Lim, Chua Bliss. “The Ghostliness of Genre”, Translating Time: Cinema, The Fantastic, And Temporal Critique, Duke University Press, p190-219 [full chapter p190-244]

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Xu, Gary. 2008. “Remaking East Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood,” in Leon Hunt and Leung Wing-Fai ed., East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film. London: I. B. Tauris, p191-202.

[will be distributed in class on Oct 16]

A slightly different version of Xu’s essay could be traced at Senses of Cinema online:

http://sensesofcinema.com/2005/feature-articles/remaking_east_asia/