WEEK 4*MAY 10th
SCREENING:
we start the screening at 10:15 am; but you can arrive at 10:30 ; )
general questions related to the Readings
1. How to grasp the evolvement of Chinese film business in relation to Chinese-language film history spanning from 1930s to the present, by referring to the development of the Shaw Brothers' family business?
2. How to position the Shaw Brothers within the postwar development of Hong Kong cinema, or even Chinese-language cinema as a whole?
3. We also talk about another New Wave movement in Asian cinema--Hong Kong New Wave.
4. According to Stephen Teo, from which aspects shall we understand wuxia as a film genre, in relation to kungfu, and martial arts cinema as a whole? How to perceive wuxia as 'national form', and its connections with historiography and nationalism? Regarding the auteurs we learn and read about, what has each of them brought to the genre?
WEEK 5*MAY 17th LECTURE
SCREENING:
1. How to grasp the evolvement of Chinese film business in relation to Chinese-language film history spanning from 1930s to the present, by referring to the development of the Shaw Brothers' family business?
2. How to position the Shaw Brothers within the postwar development of Hong Kong cinema, or even Chinese-language cinema as a whole?
3. We also talk about another New Wave movement in Asian cinema--Hong Kong New Wave.
4. According to Stephen Teo, from which aspects shall we understand wuxia as a film genre, in relation to kungfu, and martial arts cinema as a whole? How to perceive wuxia as 'national form', and its connections with historiography and nationalism? Regarding the auteurs we learn and read about, what has each of them brought to the genre?
Required Readings:
Bordwell,
David & Thompson, Kristin. (2010). Film History: An Introduction,McGraw-Hill Higher Education, pp.647-652
Chung, Stephanie Po-yin. (2007). “Mogulsof the Chinese Cinema: The Story of the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai, Hong Kongand Singapore, 1924-2002.” Modern Asian Studies 41 (04): 665–82.
doi:10.1017/S0026749X98003011.
NOTE: historian approach but really accessible reading.
Teo, Stephen.
(2009). “Introduction” & section of Chapter 4. Chinese Martial Arts
Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition. Pp.1-16, & pp. 93-107
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