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

Required Readings Butler, Judith. “Bodies In Alliance And The Politics Of The Street”, Sensible Politics : The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism . Meg McLagan and Yates McKee. MIT Press. November 2012, p117-137 【distributed in class】 Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. “Cinematic Space and Time in the Age of Neoliberalism”. [CLICK HERE ] Chee Lilian & Lim Edna. 2015. “Asian Films and The Potential Of Cinematic Space”, in Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Chee Lilian & Lim Edna , Routledge [click HERE ] [NOTE: uploaded is the anthology; you should only turn to the first chapter; since it's KINDLE transferred, there is no page number, so sorry! will be expire by Jan 10th] This workshop uses no specific film text(s) while playing with many layers of theories (it also serves as a short summary of this semester’s agenda in looking at city/urban space and cinema), so the roundtable

Reading Journal: DUE D ATES Nov 30 (Wed); Dec 27 th (Tue) Write a 500-word reading journal (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around; refer to CMS format style; see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/) focusing on 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. Please submit the Journal to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “READING JOURNAL I/II”. I’d send out confirmation email once your assignment is received. Late submission is not accepted unless emergency happens. Format Include the following information at the top of each assignment: Your Name Course Title Submission Date Reading Journal Essay # [you should write either 1 or 2 here; not just #!!!]        

SCREENING Double Vision , Dir. Chen Kuo-fu, 2002, 113min Dec 12 th (Monday), Venue: Rm 131, Time: 4:30pm~ Required Readings 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.  [click HERE ] Freud, “Uncanny”, 1919 [click HERE ] Tweedie, James. in “Morning In The New Metropolis: Taipei And The Globalization Of City Film,” Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity And State Of The Arts , edited by Darrell William Davis and Ru-shou Robert Chen, Routledge, 2007,p116-130 [distributed in class] Film for discussion: Double Vision , Dir. Chen Kuo-fu, 2002, 113min