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
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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.

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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.

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