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

Required Reading: Richard Neupert. “Introduction”& p 177-189, A History of the French New Wave Cinema , The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007   [ CLICK HERE   TO DOWNLOAD] Marilyn Fabe. “ Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows ”, Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique , 2004

Required Reading: David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, “Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its context, 1945-1959”, Film History: An Introduction , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010, 324-337 [here we give you the PDF version of the second edition in 2002, please pay attention to the page numbers  CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD]  Bert Cardullo. “What Is Neorealism?”, André Bazin and Italian Neorealism , Bert Cardullo et al. Continuum , 2011, 18-28 [click HERE to download] Reference Reading: Marilyn Fabe, “ Italian Neorealism—Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief ”, Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique , 2004, 99-119 [click HERE to download]

Required Reading: Bordwell, David. “The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice.” Film Criticism 4, 1 (Fall 1979): 56–64. Reprinted in Catherine Fowler, ed., The European Cinema Reader (New York: Routledge, 2002): 94–102. [ CLICK HERE ] Higson, Andrew. “The Concept Of National Cinema”, Screen (1989) 30 (4): 36-47.doi: 10.1093/screen/30.4.36 [ CLICK HERE ] Reference Reading: Villarejo, Amy. Film Studies: the Basics , Routledge, 2nd edition, 2013 [ CLICK HERE ]

Dear all, Welcome to Global Film Culture . Here is the syllabus (draft): [source of image:http://tubulocity.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bicycle-thief-B.jpg]