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

[click HERE to download]

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

[available at YouTube]