2) Sino-Japanese Filmmaking: Beyond Diaspora

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Yasukuni, by LI Ying

WEEK 8/ November 24th  
NOTE:I will do a 15-min presentation on that day. Also please be prepared for the writing session. All working sheets would be collected at the end of the semester, as part of your TAKE HOME PROJECT portfolio. 


Required Readings
Efird, Rob. 2012. “Regionalism and National Dis-integration: Li Ying’s Yasukuni and the Co-creation of East Asia”. In Popular Culture Co-production and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia. Edited by Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben Ari. 171-184
[click HERE]
NOTE: link expires by Nov 30th.

Hamid, Naficy. 2006, “Situating Accented Cinema”, Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader, edited by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden, Routledge, 111-129 
[click HERE]
NOTE: you would be directed to Northwestern's link to Naficy's book chapter--which is longer.


Hess, John. & Zimmermann, Patricia, R. 2006, “Transnational Documentaries: A Manifesto”, Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader, edited by Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden, Routledge, 97-108
[click its ONLINE VERSION here]

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