Wednesday, December 21, 2016

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

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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 10TH   
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

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

THE RENAISSANCE OF KOREAN CINEMA AND ITS GLOBAL AUTEURS

Dec 22nd 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 (3rd 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
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