INVISIBLE CITY: DREAM, DESIRE & MEMORY I

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WEEK 8/NOV 24ST   Screening Goodbye Dragon Inn, Dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, 82min 
[COMPULSORY]
WEEK 9/DEC 1ST   SEMINAR SESSION: 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
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“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
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Lim, Song-hwee. “nolstagic lingering”, “Ambivalent Nolstagia” & nostalgia as dreamspace, Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness, University of Hawai’I Press, 2014
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