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

Week 3★Oct 19^th    Screening: Searching for Brodsky【尋找布洛茨基】, Dir. Liao Gene-fon/廖金鳳, 2009

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Week 4★Oct 26^th   Lecture & Discussion

Required Readings

Berry, Chris. “Chinese Film Scholarship in English”, in A Companion to Chinese

Cinema, edited by Zhang Yingjin. Willey-Blackwell, 2012, p484-498 [download from HERE]

Zhang, Yingjin. “Cinema and National Traditions 1896-1926”, Chinese National

Cinema, p13-22 [download from HERE]

Huang, Xuelei & Xiao, Zhiwei, “Shadow Magic and the Early History of Film

Exhibition in China", The Chinese Cinema Book, eds. Song Hwee Lim & Julian

Ward, Palgrave& Macmillan, 2011 p47-55 [download from HERE]

Reference Readings

Leyda, Jay. Dianying/Electric Shadows, 15-59 [download from HERE]