WEEK 7 NOV 15 SCREENING CHINA I—STARTING/ENDING WITH THE FIFTH GENERATION?

Homework Viewing: Raise the Red Lantern (大紅燈籠高高掛), dir. Zhang Yimou, 1991

English subtitled version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWtAK_YCrTw

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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(for week 7)

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. “Of Gender, State Censorship, and Overseas Capital: An Interview with Chinese Director Zhang Yimou” Public Culture 5.2 (1993): 1-17.

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