Presentation on NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CINEMA CULTURE

Time: Jan 22 (Friday) 16:30~

Requirements

1)    Please take your presentation files with you, or send it to me via mail in advance;

2)    length: 15 min-20 min

3)    Topics could be chosen from the following lecture themes

From National Cinema to Transnational Cinema I: Revisiting the National within the East Asian Context

From National Cinema to Transnational Cinema II: Transnational Genres & the Discontents

Rethinking Documentary Cinema: But what is Documentary Anyway?

Rethinking Documentary Cinema: Documentary Evidence, Memory and Trauma

City & Cinema I: Tokyo, or Elsewhere

City & Cinema II: Hiroshima

Circulating Images in the Global Era: International Film Festival Network

You could highlight what you have learnt from the lecture/readings/screenings; present your own ideas, and throw questions. You don’t have to exhaust every aspect of the chosen topic, try to pin down to certain film work/genre, certain filmmaker, certain keywords (national cinema, trauma. flaneur, ruins etc.). Make sure prepare 2-3 questions at the end of your presentation too.

Preferably you could relate your presentation to your final paper. Consider the presentation a combination of a reading journal and textual analysis of films (use the films as examples to support or to problematize the ideas presented in the readings). You could use films from outside of the syllabus, but it would be great to focus on these titles

Nanook of the North, Dir. Robert Flaherty, 1922

Waltz with Bashir, Dir. Ali Folman, 2008

Swallowtail Butterfly, Dir. Iwai Shunji, 1996

Ghost in the Shell, Dir. Oshii Mamoru, 1995

Hiroshima Mon Amour, Dir. Alain Resnais, 1959

Please write me if you have any question. The final paper would be due on Feb 1^st. Details would be given on Jan 22^nd.