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

Homework Viewing: Lost in Thailand/ 泰囧 , 2012. Dir. Xu Zheng 【 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLW9Ob5b5s 】 WEEK 12/December 22 nd Required Readings SOFT POWER READING Yang, Fan. 2015. “ Crazy Stone ,  National Cinema, and Counterfeit (Film) Culture ” & “ Conclusion: Cultural Imperialism and the “Chinese Dream ” In Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (Global Research Studies) , CORRECTED: Introduction [click HERE ] & 169-202 [click HERE ]. Indiana University Press. Li , Dian, and Shuang Luo. 2017. “The Selfie of the Other   : The Chinese Dream in Films and Tourism.” Asian Cinema 28 (1): 39–54. 【click HERE 】

WEEK 11/ December 15 th Required Readings Yomi Braester. 2015. "The Spectral Return of Cinema: Globalization and Cinephilia in Contemporary Chinese Film."  Cinema Journal  55, no. 1: 29-51. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed September 4, 2017).  [click HERE ] Fan, Victor. 2017. “Revisiting Jia Zhangke, Individuality, Subjectivity, and autonomy in Contemporary Chinese Independent Cinema”, in Global Auteur, the Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema . Edited by Seung-hoon Jeong, Jeremi Szaniawski . Bloomsbury.  THE WHOLE MOBI/KINDLE book is shared HERE , please DL by Dec 12th.  Reference Reading: [previously REQUIRED reading] Liao, Hongfei. 2014. “Thinking the Inutility: Temporality, Affect, and Embodiment in Useless and Walker .” In Transnational Chinese Cinema: Corporeality, Desire, and Ethics of Failure . Edited by Brian Bergen-Aurand, Mary Mazzilli, Hee Wai-Siam. Los Angeles, CA : Bridge21 Publications, 137-157 [click HERE ]

I Wish I Knew/ 海上传奇 dir. Jia Zhangke Date/Time/Venue: Dec 11 Monday, 4:30, Rm. 131

Fang Lijun SERIES 2 NO. 4  Dear all, I know these could be a lot of reading. Highly encourage you to read them all.  For our discussion, we shall focus on Reading No.2 &3. 1.Dirlik, Arif. & Zhang, Xudong. 1999. “Introduction: Postmodernism and China”. In Postmodernism and China . Edited by Zhang Xudong and Arif Dirlik. Duke University Press. 1-18. [click HERE ] 2.Wang, Hui. 2004. “The Year 1989 and the Historical Roots of Neoliberalism in China.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 12 (1): 7–69.  [click HERE ] 3.Zhang, Xudong. 2008. “Introduction: the Cultural Politics of Postsocialism.” In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century , 1-22. Duke University Press. [click HERE ]