WEEK 6/November 10th “Homeless” Auteur on the Global Stage

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1) “Homeless” Auteur on the Global Stage
WEEK 6/November 10th   
Required Readings:
Gerow, Aaron. 2009. "The Homelessness of Style and the Problems of Studying Miike Takashi". Revue Canadienne d'Études cinématographiques / Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Vol. 18, No. 1, A Special Issue On Contemporary Japanese Cinema In Transition (spring · printemps). 24-43
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CHANGED reading

Gerow, Aaron. 2017. "Globalism, New Media, and Cinematically Imaging the Inescapable Japan". In Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture (Routledge Handbooks), edited by Koichi Iwabuchi, Eva Tsai, Chris Berry. 
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Note: the whole handbook is shared; download available only for a week. please locate the pages on your own. 


Zahlten, Alexander. 2017. “Introduction”, in The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies, 1-24. London: Duke University Press.
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Reference Reading:
Okada, Jun. 2012. “Cultural Odor in the Global Order: Globalization and the Raced Japanese Body.” In Transnational Asian identities in Pan-Pacific cinemas: the Reel Asian Exchange, edited by Gates, Philippa & Funnell, Lisa. Routledge.
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NOTE: the whole book is shared. download available for a week.

Homework Viewing
中国の鳥人/The Bird People in China, 1998
Dir. Miike Takashi/三池崇史
【https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZTHOeV8MyI】


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