HHH A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien by Olivier Assayas
Dear all, I included this YouTube source in the syllabus. [https://www.acmi.net.au/media/533617/IMG-CTQ-Un-Portrait-de-Hou-Hsiao-Hsien-HERO.jpg] Watch it here !
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ALL ABOUT HHH & TAIWANESE NEW WAVE I Readings
Required Reading: Douglas Kellner, “New Taiwan Cinema in the 80s”, Jump Cut . [ http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC42folder/80sTaiwanCinema.html ] Udden, James. 2009. “Hou and the Taiwanese New Cinema.” In No Man an Island , 49-55 & 69–76 . Hong Kong University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jc0cj [the whole chapter is uploaded here]
on the READING JOURNAL
Dear all, In case you want to prepare the first reading journal from early on, please CLICH HERE for a detailed guidance on this assignment. Also, you have got the SAMPLE WRITING from one of our previous students. If not, please remind me to bring you a copy. If you have got any question, please write me or find me at my office. cheers Ran
readings for JAPANESE NEW WAVE
Week 7 May 22 nd Seminar Session [source: http://pthumb.lisimg.com/image/4085746/250full.jpg] Required Reading: David Desser, “introduction”, Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction To The Japanese New Wave Cinema , Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988 [click HERE to download] Turim, Maureen. 1998. “Cruel Stories of Youth and Politics”. The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast , University of California Press: 27-51 [distributed in class]
Reading for Week 5 May 8th FRENCH NEW WAVE
Required Reading: Richard Neupert. “Introduction”& p 177-189, A History of the French New Wave Cinema , The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007 [ CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD] Marilyn Fabe. “ Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows ”, Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique , 2004
Reading for Week 3 Apr 24th ITALIAN NEOREALISM
Required Reading: David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, “Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its context, 1945-1959”, Film History: An Introduction , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010, 324-337 [here we give you the PDF version of the second edition in 2002, please pay attention to the page numbers CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD] Bert Cardullo. “What Is Neorealism?”, André Bazin and Italian Neorealism , Bert Cardullo et al. Continuum , 2011, 18-28 [click HERE to download] Reference Reading: Marilyn Fabe, “ Italian Neorealism—Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief ”, Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique , 2004, 99-119 [click HERE to download]
Readings for Week 2
Required Reading: Bordwell, David. “The Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice.” Film Criticism 4, 1 (Fall 1979): 56–64. Reprinted in Catherine Fowler, ed., The European Cinema Reader (New York: Routledge, 2002): 94–102. [ CLICK HERE ] Higson, Andrew. “The Concept Of National Cinema”, Screen (1989) 30 (4): 36-47.doi: 10.1093/screen/30.4.36 [ CLICK HERE ] Reference Reading: Villarejo, Amy. Film Studies: the Basics , Routledge, 2nd edition, 2013 [ CLICK HERE ]