WEEK 7 *MAY 31 CHINESE CINEMA IN THE 1990s AND 2000s: MAIN MELODY, MAINSTREAM AND THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING

Special Screening

East Palace, West Palace (东宫西宫)

Dir. Zhang Yuan/張元, 1996, 90min

Date/Time/Venue: May 27^th Monday, 4:30pm, Rm 127

NOTE: if you cannot make it to the screening, write to Ma Ran please. She knows how you can watch it on your own.

WEEK 7 *MAY 31^ST LECTURE

 

Required Reading:

(FOR WEEK 6-7) Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. (2010). Film History: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, pp.637-643[click the page numbers]

Berry, Chris. (1998) “East Palace, West Palace-Staging gay life in China”, Jump Cut, no. 42, December, pp. 84-89 

Bao, Hongwei (2018) ‘Introduction: QueerComrades’. Queer Comrades: Gay identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China. NIAS Press. Pp.1-36

Reference Reading:

Lim, Song Hwee. (2006). “The Uses of Femininity: Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine and Zhang Yuan’s EastPalace, West Palace”, Celluloid Comrades Representation of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas. University of Hawai’i Press: 69-98
NOTE: pls read the right pages. Thank you!