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Flâneur and Dérive: Roaming in The City

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Required Readings Walter Benjamin, “On Some Motifs on Baudelaire”  link : http://pan.baidu.com/s/1bn0EViJ  password: 5ywu Linda Chiu-Han Lai, “ Whither The Walker Goes: Spatial Practices And Negative Poetics In 1990s Chinese Urban Cinema”,  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/1dDtjuUX   password: 1d23 Reference Reading Marshall Berman, “Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets”  link : http://pan.baidu.com/s/1eQcSrcu   password: v1km Thomas, Mcdonough. “the derive and Situationist Paris”, Situacionistas/Situationists: Arte, Politica, Urbanismo/Art, Politics, Urbanism link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1c08e0og password: 4lyo   Film for discussion: Suzhou River , Dir. Lou Ye, 2000   please download the film's folder here link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1o6mLvL4  password: 9pwk NOTE: please do NOT change files'

Week 11* Dec 12th Haunting Cities: the Uncanny and the Ghostly

Required Readings Freud, “Uncanny”, 1919   https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=078a68a0eced7d89df2d1c3ccf6a9ddd Dudley Andrew, “Ghost Towns”, Cinema at the City’s Edge:  Film and Urban Networks in East Asia . Yomi Braester, James Tweedie, eds., Hong Kong University Press: 2010.   https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=4c856d927df5fce63f760f33bf65c827