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

requirements: please prepare some questions in advance!  Week 14 ★ July 7 th Group Discussion Session Balsom, Erika. (2017). “Introduction”. After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation . Pp1-24  [distribute in class] Falicov, Tamara L. (2016). “The ‘Festival Film’: Film Festival Funds as Cultural Intermediaries”. In Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice , Edited by Marijke de Valck, Brendan Kredell, Skadi Loist. Pp209-229 [please find the right chapter! mobi book version HERE ] Nornes, Abé Mark. (2014). “Yamagata—Asia—Europe: The International Film Festival Short-Circuit”. ed. Daisuke Miyao, The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema . Oxford University Press.[click HERE ] Wong, Hing-yuk Cindy. (2012). “History, Structure, and Practice in the Festival World”. Film Festivals: Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen. Pp 29-64 [distribute in class]

My warming up questions: What do you think of Uncle Boonmee ? Have you done research about the red-eyed ‘ghosts’? Have you experienced Apichatpong’s art projects, and especially the video installations etc.? Kim’s interview is a great read for you to rethink Uncle Boonmee, probably.   Required Readings Ingawanij, May Adadol; Macdonald, Richard Lowell. (2010). “Blissfully Whose? Jungle Pleasures, Ultra-Modernist Cinema and the Cosmopolitan Thai Auteur.” In The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand , edited by Rachel. Harrison and Peter. A. Jackson, 119–34. The University of Hong Kong press. [link to download its bibliography; sorry for not including this earlier] for Perry Anderson's 'ultra-modern', check out page 104-5 from THIS BOOK  1.      I recall participating Apichatpong’s talk session with Yomota Inuhiko last November at Tokyo, when a too-much talkative Yomota reminded the enthusiastic ‘Joe’ (Apichatpong’s nickname

sorry! I would think of some questions before the meeting on June 30th. Week 12 ★ June 23 rd     Screening: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives , Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010 Week 13 ★ June 30 th    Presentation Session Required Readings Ingawanij, May Adadol; Macdonald, Richard Lowell. (2010). “Blissfully Whose? Jungle Pleasures, Ultra-Modernist Cinema and the Cosmopolitan Thai Auteur.” In The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand , edited by Rachel. Harrison and Peter. A. Jackson, 119–34. the University of Hong Kong press. [distribute in class] O’Haha, Angela. (2012, reprinted in 2015)“Mysterious Object of Desire: The Haunted Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul”. In Gates, Philippa & Funnell, Lisa. (eds.) Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas: The Reel Asian Exchange . New York & London: Routledge: 177-190 [click HERE ] NOTE: it's the MOBI book. Please do NOT circulate beyond clas