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

readings for WEEK 9 NOV 29 ABOUT TAIWAN NEW CINEMA AND ITS AFTERLIFE

2^nd Reading Journal Due on Nov 30 WEDNESDAY, 5pm

Required Readings

Harrison, Mark. 2009. “How To Speak About Oneself: Theory and Identity In Taiwan”, in Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia: What a Difference a Region Makes. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 51-70.

[click HERE]

NOTE: this is the whole chapter; find the right pages please. Also the link would expire by the end of the month

Wilson, Flannery.2014.“Charting the Course: Defining the Taiwanese Cinematic ‘Tradition’” New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus: Moving Within and Beyond the Frame. Edinburgh University Press
[click HERE]

the 21st Art Film Festival at Aichi Art Center

lots of experimental films, even with no subtitle you could "easily" understand (?!).
FREE OF CHARGE

Please refer to here 

notes on screening China I

please download the NOTEs HERE

[this link expires by the end of November]

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)

readings for Week 8 Nov 22 SCREENING CHINA II—FROM UNDERGROUND TO INDEPENDENT, AND TO DV-MADE CHINA

Required Readings 

(for week 7 &8)

Zhang, Yingjin. “Directors, Aesthetics, Genres: Chinese Postsocialist Cinema, 1979-2010”, in A Companion To Chinese Cinema, edited by Zhang Yingjin, Blackwell Publishing 2012, p57-74
[click HERE]

Required Readings for Week 8

Breaster, Yomi. “From Urban Films To Urban Cinema: The Emergence Of A Critical Concept” in A Companion To Chinese Cinema, edited by Zhang Yingjin, Blackwell Publishing 2012, p346-358

[distributed in class]

Reference Readings

Zhang, Zhen & Angela Zito. “Introduction”, Zhang, Zhen, and Angela Zito, eds. DV-made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations After Independent Film. University of Hawai, 2015.

[click HERE]
NOTE: the Zhang & Zito article might be challenging for some of us to tackle so I put it into the REFERENCE READING category; I think it's extremely important if you want to explore the topics further.

Huang, Yiju. "By Way of Melancholia: Remembrance of Tiananmen Square Incident in Summer Palace." Asian Cinema 21.1 (2010): 165-178.

[click HERE to download]

screening for week 8 (non-compulsory) SUMMER PALACE

Nov 17^th  THURSDAY

 

Summer Palace（颐和园）, Dir. Lou Ye, 2006

Time: 6:10 pm /Venue: Rm 131
NOTE: starting time changed

note: for students who cannot participate the screening, you are encouraged to borrow the DVD from me.