PG SEMINAR 2021: KEYWORDS IN RETHINKING ASIAN MEDIA AND CINEMA CULTURE

Required Readings Trinh T. Minh-ha, “An Acoustic Journey”, Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism And The Boundary Event , Routledge, 2011  download link : http://pan.baidu.com/s/1pbSy0   password: 351k Kwai-Cheung Lo, “There Is No Such Thing as Asia: Racial Particularities in the ‘Asian’ Films of Hong Kong and Japan”, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture , Vol. 17, No. 1, Special Issue on Chinese Culture in Inter-Asia (SPRING, 2005), pp. 133-158 download link :  http://pan.baidu.com/s/1ckEBG  password: xtes Film for discussion: Sleepless Town , Dir. Chi-ngai Lee, 1998 Screening on January 10th, Room 237, 4:30 pm

Dear all, Here are the readings for the coming week (we only have one final week left before Christmas !!!)

Dear all, I wouldn't blame you if you find the readings too much.

Dear all, you could download the film from the following links, and enjoy!

Dear all, here are the readings for the coming week

Dear all, Note: You have to put BOTH the film file AND the subtitle file in the SAME folder to make sure they could be played. easy !!! enjoy!!!! Continue to read to find the download links please : )

Dear all, Here are the links to the readings: Would upload the film Goodbye Dragon Inn file asap ; ) Enjoy!!! Week 9 * Nov 26 th Invisible City: Dream, Desire & Memory II—Case Study of Tsai Mingliang’s films Required Reading : Kenneth Chan. “Goodbye Dragon Inn: Tsai Ming-liang’s political aesthetics of nostalgia, place, and lingering”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas , Vol No.1 Issue 2, 2007 http://pan.baidu.com/s/1f5Kwq “Leaving the cinema: metacinematic cruising  in Tsai Ming-liang’s  Goodbye, Dragon Inn” , Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media , Jump Cut , No. 50, spring 2008 http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc50.2008/DragonInn/

Dear all, two major changes made with the syllabus, which is basically to facilitate your reading---and let there be more focus. 1.  Week 9 * Nov 26 th  Invisible City: Dream, Desire & Memory II—Case Study of Tsai Mingliang’s films We ONLY WATCH Goodbye Dragon Inn , 2003  Reading-wise Andrea Bachner. “Cinema as Heterochronos: Temporal Folds in the Work of Tsai Ming-liang”,  Modern Chinese Literature and Culture  Vol. 19, No. 1 (SPRING, 2007), pp. 60-90 CHANGED INTO “Leaving the cinema: metacinematic cruising  in Tsai Ming-liang’s  Goodbye, Dragon Inn” , Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media , Jump Cut , No. 50, spring 2008 2. Week 10 * Dec 3 rd  Haunting Cities: the Uncanny and the Ghostly  NO NEED TO READ reference reading Esther M Cheung, “On Spectral Mutations: The Ghostly City in The Secret, Rouge and Little Cheung”,  Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image , ed. Kam Louie, 2010

Dear all, First of all, on the Nov. 5th Presentation 1) It's mainly an oral presentation, time limit 5-8 minutes; followed by Q & A session opened to the floor; 2) you don't have to present in PPT; could bring pictures/simple handouts though; 3)Please engage with any building, architecture, ruins, or even art project working with urban space/city history/memory in your presentation. It would be nice if you could link it up with the readings.  Please find in the following part our links to the readings

Here are the links for our coming seminar! Enjoy!                                                       by Artist WANG Jiongsong

Dear all, I should also put the plan here right?! Please check out who is your respondent ; ) No. Date & Topic Name of Presenters 1 Oct 15nd Arriving In The City: Space, Event and Cinema Venetia (respondent for Eri) 2 Oct 22nd the Disappearing City: Ruins & Monuments I 3 Oct 29th the Disappearing City: Ruins & Monuments II Hyoyeon (respondent for Venetia) 4 Nov 19th Invisible City: Dream, Desire & Memory I 5 Nov 26th Invisible City: Dream, Desire & Memory II --Case Study of Tsai Mingliang’s films Nora (respondent for Hyoyeon) 6 Dec 3rd Haunting Cities: the Uncanny and the Ghostly Josh (respondent for Nora) 7 Dec 10th Flaneur and Derive: Roaming in The City Maria (respondent for Josh) 8 Dec 17th Strangerhood in the Metropolis Julia (respondent for Maria) 9 Jan 14th Border Transgressed I: Minority, Diaspora and Refugee Xu Yixin & Panqin (respondent for Julia) 10 Jan 21 Global City Eri (respondent for Julia)