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

Will distribute the readings on Oct 24's Class If you need PDFs, please let me know. [UPDATED] Here you could download 2 PDFs; the photocopied version lacks one page. Required Readings Mercken-Spaas, Godelieve “Destruction and Reconstruction in Hiroshima, Mon Amour ”, Literature/Film Quarterly , 1980 Vol. 8, No. 4, p244-250 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1iCIatGj0eLNXh5QVFZTGZ4dWc/view?usp=sharing James Tweedie, “Walking in the City ”, The Age Of New Waves: Art Cinema And The Staging Of Globalization , Oxford University Press, 2013, p83-128 Moses, John W., “Vision Denied in Night and Fog and Hiroshima Mon Amour ”. Literature Film Quarterly . 1987, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p159. 5p. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1iCIatGj0eLVUJzamIwY3JrSGM/view?usp=sharing

speaking of Tokyo, here is the NHK online image archive for this city, over 100 years!!! http://www.nhk.or.jp/special/phoenix/

Required Reading Yomi Braester, “Arriving in the City; Touring the City; Watching the City”, Cinema at the City’s Edge:  Film and Urban Networks in East Asia. Yomi Braester, James Tweedie, eds., Hong Kong University Press: 2010. http://pan.baidu.com/s/15QCvM Mark Shiel. “Cinema and the City in History and Theory”, Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context, ed. Tony Fitzmaurice and Mark Shiel, 2001   http://pan.baidu.com/s/13iMhN Reference Reading Bernard Tschumi, “Six Concepts”, Architecture and Disjunction, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.227-259 http://pan.baidu.com/s/1AAuqF

Dear all (?!), So sorry that there are so few people this semester ; ( Here are the readings...Please write me if you have any quesition or problem. Ran

Lecturer: MA Ran (maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp) Class: Fridays, 14:45~16:15 Place: School of Letters, Room 131 Office/Hour: Monday~Wednesday, School of Letters Rm.224, appointment via email Seminar Blog: http://2014nucity.blogspot.jp/ [readings and other course-related materials, notifications would be updated at the course blog] Description & Objectives: In this fast-changing, ever globalizing world, the life and existence of human beings are to great extent defined by the urban condition they are enmeshed within and struggling with. This seminar attempts to survey major urban issues and cultural topics in modern societies by engaging with a wide spectrum of cultural texts drawn from films, literary works as well as architecture; in case studies, particular attention is paid to the social context and cities in Asia. City will not only be simply explored as the theme or ambience featured in these texts, following our adventure of “entering” the city, with the socio