a 3rd Reading Journal due in January

a 3rd Reading Journal is due on January 18th, Wednesday

[note: due to the rescheduling, we have extended the deadline for this reading journal so it allows you to review readings between Week 9-15] 

refer to the old entry for more details

rescheduling of the January lectures

Dear all,




What a year! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! Thank you for discussing films, and watching films together with me ; )


am really disappointed that we could not finish watching THE HOST together ; ( but this is life.
I purchased a Blue-Ray after returning from the classroom, so for the future class, I would never let this happen again.


Re-scheduling of the upcoming lectures:

WEEK 13 DEC 27          NO CLASS

WINTER BREAK: DEC 28-JAN 7

WEEK 14 JAN 10^TH   

THE RENAISSANCE OF KOREAN CINEMA AND ITS GLOBAL AUTEURS

WEEK 15  JAN 17  

A GLIMPSE INTO THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA

WEEK 16 Jan 24th 

THESIS WORKSHOP

THE RENAISSANCE OF KOREAN CINEMA AND ITS GLOBAL AUTEURS

Dec 22^nd Thursday  

Special screening: the Captive, Dir. Brillante Mendoza, 2012

TIME: 6:30pm/ Venue: Rm. 131

Required readings:

Lee Sang-joon. “Introduction”, Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (Perspectives On Contemporary Korea), edited by Lee Sang-Joon & Abe Mark Nornes, University of Michigan Press, 2015 [distributed in class]

NEWLY ADDED

David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film History: An Introduction (3^rd edition), MdGraw Hill Higher Education, 2010 [pages related to the South Korean film industry; distributed in class]

REFERENCE READING (our previous Required Reading):

Kim Kyung Hyun, “Virtual Landscapes: Sopyonje, The Power Of Kangwon Province, And The Host”, Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era, Duke University Press, 2011, p1-54
【click HERE】

notes for Taiwan new cinema

please download the NOTEs HERE

[this link expires by the end of December]

NOTE:
password for the download is the date of the lecture. for instance if the lecture takes place on January 01, 1900 then the password would be 19000101 (eight-digit:yyyymmdd)

notes of SCREENING CHINA II

please download the NOTEs HERE

[this link expires by the end of December]

NOTE:
password for the download is the date of the lecture. for instance if the lecture takes place on January 01, 1900 then the password would be 19000101 (eight-digit:yyyymmdd)

HONG KONG CINEMA FROM POST-1997 TO THE UMBRELLA REVOLUTION

WEEK 10 DEC 6   Screening: Election 2 (黑社會以和為貴), Dir. Johnnie To, 2006, 93min
NOTE: please arrive on time




Required Readings for week 10 & 11


Pang, Laikwan. (2002) “Masculinity in Crisis: Films of Milkyway Image and Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema”, Feminist Media Studies, 2:3, 325-340
[click HERE]
NOTE： the download link expires in mid-November

Zhang, Yingjin. (2004) "Hong Kong: Of the Global and the Local", Chinese National Cinema, Routledge, p261-271
[distribute in class]

SCREENING on Nov. 24th THURSDAY

TIME & VENUE: 6:10PM, RM 131

Special Screening: 

(光陰的故事-台灣新電影), Dir. Chinlin Shien, 2014, 109min