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

Required Readings Jonathan Kear , “ a Game That Must Be Lost: Chris Marker Replays Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour”, The Image And The Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture , ed. Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas, 2007 [click HERE to download] Rascoli, Laura. “The Musealisation Of Experience: Chris Marker's Digital Subject Between Archive, Museum And Database”, The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film , London; New York: Wallflower Press, 2009. Pp64-82  [distribute in class]

Required Reading: Chris Berry and Lisa Rofel, “Alternative Archive: China’s Independent Documentary Culture” , In Chris Berry; Lisa Rofel and Xinyu Lu, eds. The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record . Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, 2010, pp. 135-154. [distribute in class] Jie Li. “Virtual Museums of Forbidden Memories: Hu Jie's Documentary Films on the Cultural Revolution” , Public Culture 21.3: 538–49, 2010 [distribute in class] Johnson, Ian. “China’s Invisible History: An Interview with Filmmaker and Artist Hu Jie”, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/05/27/chinas-invisible-history-hu-jie/