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

Week 4/Oct 27 th Screening: Hiroshima Mon Amour , Dir. Alain Resnais, 1959 Week 5 NOV 3 National Holiday: No Class Week 6/Nov 10 th     Seminar Session        Required Readings 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 【distribute in class】 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

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 [distributed in class] Reference Reading Bernard Tschumi, “Six Concepts”, Architecture and Disjunction, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.227-259 http://pan.baidu.com/s/1AAuqF Film for discussion: Sans Soleil , Dir. Chris Marker, 1983 (also refer to Tokyo-ga , Dir. Wim Wenders, 1985)

Twenty-Two , Documentary, Dir. Guo Ke 2015 IN MANDARIN AND DIALECT WITH CHINESE AND ENGLISH SUBTITLES 112 MINS http://chinesevisualfestival.org/production/twenty-two/ Date/Time: Oct 13, Thursday/6:15pm  Venue: Rm 131

Dear all, for  WEEK 2/OCT 13 TH READING SESSION: CITY AS CULTURAL TEXT We are going to have a discussion session: 1. I will prepare some questions related to the readings; 2. Group discussions (find your team-mates!) 3. Exchange session: groups exchange questions & arguments

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dear all, one reading is added to your Week 2 reading list: Berman, Marshall."Introduction"& "Bauderlaire: Modernism in the Streets",   All That Is Solid Melts into Air: the Experience of Modernity, 1982, [download the book HERE ]

Please download the course syllabus  HERE WEEK 2/OCT 13 TH READING SESSION: CITY AS CULTURAL TEXT Donald Richie, Tokyo: A View Of The City, London, England: Reaktion Books, 1999,11-16 http://pan.baidu.com/s/1cegEw Roland Barthes, “the Eiffel Tower” http://pan.baidu.com/s/1qXn1W Walter Benjamin, “Paris, The Capital Of the Nineteenth Century”, 1935 http://pan.baidu.com/s/11M7VU