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

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)

Dear all, There would be a local festival at Nagoya...wish you could enjoy it, while remembering to finish the readings ; ) Please read the post for download links.

Hello everyone! I still should post them here right? ! Please check this post out ; )

Link to the Marker Text Today I mentioned that Marker quotes Sei Shonagon and refers to the Student Movement, and also the protest for Narita Airport Sei Shonagon He spoke to me of Sei Shonagon, a lady in waiting to Princess Sadako at the beginning of the 11th century, in the Heian period. Do we ever know where history is really made? Rulers ruled and used complicated strategies to fight one another. Real power was in the hands of a family of hereditary regents; the emperor's court had become nothing more than a place of intrigues and intellectual games. But by learning to draw a sort of melancholy comfort from the contemplation of the tiniest things this small group of idlers left a mark on Japanese sensibility much deeper than the mediocre thundering of the politicians. Shonagon had a passion for lists: the list of 'elegant things,' 'distressing things,' or even of 'things not worth doing.' One day she got the idea of drawing up a list of '

Dear all, thank you for joining the Seminar titled City, Urban Culture and Cinema in Contemporary Asia . Here are the readings for Week 2: Prelude-City as Cultural Text . These materials are uploaded  for academic purposes, and please circulate among yourselves only.  Enjoy! Ran