Week 7*Nov 19th Early Cinemas in East Asia until the 1930s

In-class Screening:  1930s Chinese silent films starred by Ruan Lingyu; Kurama Tengu, Dir. Teppei Yamaguchi, 1928, etc.

Required Reading

Richie, Donald, A Hundred Years OfJapanese Film, Kodansha International, revised edition, 2005, 17-32
NOTE： Please read the right pages.

Fan, Victor. “Fromthe Shadow Play to Electric Shadows”, Electric Shadows: A Century Of Chinese Cinema, eds. James Bell, BFI, 2014, 8-15