EMPIRE AND COLONIALISM: FILMMAKING IN MANCHURIA AND KOREA II

Week 13★Jan 11^th Screening: Spring of Korean Peninsula, Dir. Directed by LEE Byung-Ii, 1941

Sweet Dreams, Dir. Yang Joo-nam, 1936

+ Moving Images from Godfilmofond (newsreel etc. from the 1930s-40s)

NOTES ON Empire and Colonialism I

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

please download the NOTEs HERE

Expires by Dec 28th 

2nd Reading Journal due Dec 10th/5pm

★Film Journal No.2 Due on Dec 10^th, 5pm via email on 1 out of 2 films:

a）Sisters of Gion [an older version at YouTube with the english subtitles]；

b) Osaka Elegy

 If you want to make connections between these two films, it is also possible. Talk to Ma Ran for other topics. 

EMPIRE AND COLONIALISM: FILMMAKING IN MANCHURIA AND KOREA Part I

https://www.whatsonweibo.com/lixianglan/

notes on Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women

download the NOTES HERE

[expires by Dec 7th]

TAKE HOME PROJECT Dec 28th (Thursday), 5pm

TASK: FILM REVIEW & REPORT

You could choose from the following 2 options; format free; use Chicago Manual of Style for annotations

notes on the Fallen Woman of Shanghai

One of the Best Kissing scenes, I think, when Chen asks Xiao Hong to close her eyes for a magic show
from YUAN Muzhi's Street Angel/马路天使 (1937)

Week 10★Dec 7th Presentation/Discussion Session—Cinemas from ‘Other Asias’

2. Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women

deleted the unrelated readings

Dear ACH students,

Sincere apologies!
Am so sorry that I have updated our blog here with readings for another graduate student seminar.

Now the entry (melodrama/melodramatic) is deleted.

As you know, our reading for Nov 16th was posted earlier this month here
https://nu2018ach.blogspot.com/2018/11/ii-evolvement-and-transformation-1930s.html

Best,
Ran

ASIAN CINEMA BEFORE 1945 (ACH) Reading Journal

Reading Journals: Due Dates Nov 12^th/Dec 10^th/Jan 21^st (Mondays)/5pm.

II. EVOLVEMENT AND TRANSFORMATION: THE 1930s-40s 1. the Fallen Woman of Shanghai

NOTES for Accounts of Early Chinese Cinema I/:From Peking to Shanghai

3. Accounts of Early Chinese Cinema II: Shadow Play in Context/Week 5★Nov 2nd Lecture & Discussion

Laborer's Love/劳工之爱情, 1922

NOTES FOR WEEK 2/Early Japanese Cinema: Benshi & Period Films

2. Accounts of Early Chinese Cinema I：From Peking to Shanghai

Week 2★Oct 12th 1. Early Japanese Cinema: Benshi & Period Films

Week 2★Oct 12^th    Lecture and Discussion

WEEK 1 /Oct 5th INTRODUCTION: EARLY CINEMAS IN (EAST) ASIA, MAPS AND TIMELINES

Screening: the Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu [鞍馬天狗 恐怖時代],Dir. Teppei Yamaguchi, 38 min, 1928; Jiraiya the Hero[豪傑児雷也], Dir.Makino Shozo, 20min, 1921

Required Readings

(for the whole semester):

Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing About Film. 9th. ed. New York: Longman 2014[ CLICK HERE to download]

Reference Readings

Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. “The Difficulty of Being Radical: The Discipline of FilmStudies and The Post-Colonial World Order”, in Asian Cinemas: A Reader And Guide, edited by Dimitris Eleftheriotis & Gary Needham, Honolulu: University of

Hawaii Press, 2006, p27-40 [click HERE]

Welcome to 2018 Asian Cinema before 1945 [SYLLABUS DOWNLOAD]

Dear all,

This is Ran.

Welcome to ACH, and click HERE to download the course syllabus.

benshi performance
https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/en/what-we-do/support/program/13786/

Week 7 May 25th Spectatorship & Gaze I

RR for Week 6- 8: Sturken & Cartwright, Modernity: Spectatorship, The Gaze, and Power. 93-139

RR for Week 6: Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975)

Week 6 May 18th Screening

Rear Window, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, 114 Min.

Note: the screening is mandatory.

Week 5 May 11th Viewers Make Meaning

Week 4 May 4^th     National Holiday /No Class

Week 5 May 11^th     Viewers Make Meaning

RR: Sturken & Cartwright, Third Version

you are to read Chapter 2/p51-81 in this new version