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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
[click HERE to download]
Film for
Discussion: Ghost in the Shell, Dir. Oshii Mamoru, 1995
[available at
YouTube]
