DATE |
CLASS DISCUSSION |
READING & VIEWING HOMEWORK |
6/16 |
Themes and Methods Introduction, excerpts from Image-Music-Text by Roland Barthes; Francis Fukuyama’s idea of The End of History through liberalism; view Farewell My Concubine, dir by Chen Kaige |
Lu, (TCC) pp.1-26; and (CTVGP) pp.1-28; “If China Can Say No, Can China Make Movies? Or Do Movies Make China?” by Chris Berry, pp. 159-177; article by Tam and Dissanayake entitled “Chinese Cinema: Lines of Development” pp.1-10; finish viewing Farewell My Concubine, dir by Chen Kaige; articles by Sheldon Lu: China, Transnational Visuality… and Dialect and Modernity…; Shu Mei-Shi’s Visuality and Identity: Sinopohone Articulations Across the Pacific |
6/18 |
Historical Films and Collective/Private Memories quiz on Farewell My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige and Fukuyama’s article; |
Read “The concubine and the figure of history” by Wendy Larson in (TCC) pp.331-343; “History Lessons” by Pauline Chen, pp.85-7; read “Farewell My Concubine”: History, Melodrama, and Ideology in Contemporary Pan-Chinese Cinema and Farewell My Concubine and its Nativist Critics; view To Live, directed by Zhang Yimou |
6/20 |
quiz on To Live, directed by Zhang Yimou; the place of Mao and Chinese history in film; |
Read article “We endure, therefore we are: survival, governance, and Zhang Yimou’s To Live” by Chow and article by “To Live Beyond Good and Evil”by Wang in Asian Cinema, vol. 12 No.1, 2001; (SGWF) pp.1-17; view City of Life and Death |
6/23 |
quiz on City of Life and Death, directed by Lu Chuan; discuss first paper |
weekend: read Lu, (TCC) pp.105-133; historic background of the Cultural Revolution;Historic background of Great Leap Forward; read Peacock Review by Derek Elley; view the following: Peacock, dir by Gu Changwei and Aftershock, dir by Feng Xiaogang; |
6/25 |
quiz on Peacock, and Aftershock; discussions; |
view Postmen in the Mountain directed by Huo Jianqi; read Wendy Larson’s He Yi’s The Postmen: The Workspace of a New Age Maoist; write first paper; |
6/27 |
China (Rural) quiz on Postmen in the Mountains, directed by Huo Jianqi; first paper due |
view Not One Less; and Story of Qiu Ju; read review of Qiu Ju; view |
6/30 |
quiz on Not One Less, and Story of Qiu Ju; dir by Zhang Yimou |
view Blind Shaft; read a review of Blind Shaft; |
7/2 |
quiz on Blind Shaft, dir by Li Yang; discussion |
weekend: view Ermo directed by Zhou Xiaowen; read “Ermo, Televisuality, capital and the global village” by Ciecko/Lu; and view Incense and read Carl Jung The Undiscovered Self pp.3-39; Modern Man in Search of A Soul pp.95-114; |
7/4 |
quiz on and Ermo, dir. by Zhou Xiaowen; and Incense, directed by Ning Hao; |
view The World directed by Zhangke Jia; read a review of The World, read Interview with Jia Zhangke , Poetics of Vanishing, the cinema of Jia Zhangke, by Zhang Xudong, write second paper |
7/7 |
China (Urban) quiz on The World, directed by Jia Zhangke; second paper due; second paper due |
view Happy Times; read interview of Zhang Yimou by Jiao Xiongping, 1988, pp.3-11; read Happy Times Review, and China’s New Leftist; A Chinese Alternative; |
7/9 |
quiz on Happy Times, dir by Zhang Yimou |
view Together; read “The Theory of the Novel” by Georg Lukacs, pp. 29-39, 56-69; read a review of Together; |
7/11 |
quiz on Together, directed by Chen kaige; |
weekend: view Shower; read article by Nick Browne entitled “Society and Sujectivity: on the political economy of Chinese melodrama” pp.40-56; read review of Shower; view Zhou Yu’s Train; read two reviews: review 1, review 2; |
7/14 |
Shower dir by Zhang Yang and Zhou Yu’s Train, directed by Zhou Sun; discussions |
View A World without Thieves; read Lu (TCC) pp.48-86, and pp. 195-212; write third paper |
7/16 |
quiz on A World without Thieves dir by Feng Xiaogang; |
View Suzhou River, directed by Lou Ye; read a review of Suzhou River; view Getting Home; |
7/18 |
quiz on Suzhou River, directed by Lou Ye, and Getting Homedirected by Yang Zhang, 2007 |
View Eat Drink Man Woman; read “Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar: Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of Ang Lee” in Lu (TCC) pp. 187-218; read Ang Lee’s Domestic Tragicomedy: Immigrant Nostalgia, Exotic/Ethnic Tour, Global Market by Sheng-mei Ma; Read “Border Crossing: Mainland China’s Presence in Hong Kong Cinema”by Esther Yau; write third paper; |
7/21 |
Taiwan/Hong Kong cinemas quiz on Eat Drink Man Woman |
weekend: view Wedding Banquet; directed by Ang Lee; write third paper; Read “Intersection: Tsai Ming-liang’s Yearning bike boys and Heartsick Heroines” by Chuck Stephens, pp.20-23; view Chinese Box ; read article by Jameson entitled “Remapping Taipei” pp.117-49 |
7/23 |
quiz on Wedding Banquet dir by Ang Lee; Chinese Box dir by Wayne Wang; historical background of Hong Kong as a British colony, Kipling and White man’s burden; third paper due |
View Comrades, Almost A Love Story read “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” by Stuart Hall; read: “Invisible Cities: Wayne Wang” by Alvin Lu, pp.31-7 |
7/25 |
quiz on Comrades, Almost A Love Story, directed by Peter Chan; |
View Happy Together; “Diaspora, Citizenship, Nationality: Hong Kong and 1997” Lu (CTVGP) pp.104-120; read article entitled “Migrancy, Culture, Identity” by Iain Chambers, pp.1-7, 22-9; read a review of Comrades, Almost a Love Story |
7/28 |
quiz on Happy Together directed by Kar-wai Wong; |
view read A Leap Forward, Or A Great Sellout? by David Barboza; also Nostalgia of the New Wave: Structure in Wang Kar-wai’s Happy Together by Rey Chow; write fourth paper; do take-home portion of the final, 50%, due on the day of the final; turn in electronically; |
7/30 |
Final exam to be held at 9 a.m. in classroom; identify film clips by director and title; discuss the significance of each clip; fourth paper due; |
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