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]

[click HERE to download the whole chapter]

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/