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

Week 10 * Dec 5 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 https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=541ce9921cdb4fb72d739e7d31a62174 “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/text.html Film for discussion : Goodbye Dragon Inn , Dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 2003   [NOTE: please put the downloaded the subtitle file and the video file TOGETHER in ONE folder; and play it in VLC player] subtitle file: https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=e67fe8b6d71453df28d4e7a79b7e49c2 video file: https://nuss.nagoya-

Required Reading Georg Simmel: “The Metropolis and Mental Life”, 1903 link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1sjM65e1  password: 79t4 Ackbar Abbas, “Affective Spaces in Hong Kong/Chinese Cinema”, Cinema at the City’s Edge:  Film and Urban Networks in East Asia . Yomi Braester, James Tweedie, eds., Hong Kong University Press: 2010. link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/18NYBc  password: q9x8

Due on Nov.14 th and Dec 19 th Write a 500-800 word reading journal (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around; refer to MLA format style https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ ) focusing on your thoughts and responses to the assigned reading for the previous month. Don’t be overly concerned with grammar (although spell-check will be helpful!), but do put a lot of thinking into your reading journals since they will be key to fruitful discussions in class and even your final paper. You could bring printed-out version to the class; also, you can submit the Journal to my email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp ; I’d send out confirmation email once your assignment is received. If you might be late for the submission, please email me in advance. Also, if you are sitting in, you are encouraged to submit your journal to me, though it is not a must. Reading Journal Format Include the following information at the top of each numbered read

Sheldon H. Lu , “ Tear Down The City: Reconstructing Urban Space In Contemporary Chinese Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art”, The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema And Society At The Turn Of The Twenty-First Century , eds. Zhang Zhen, 2007  link : http://pan.baidu.com/s/1mgGARZq  password: 1iqr Film for discussion: 100 Flowers Hidden Deep , Dir.:Chen Kaige (available at YouTube; 10 minute) [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3JDUtJi2hY ] Shower , Dir. Zhang Yang, 1999