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]