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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 ]

Syllabus for Spring 2015

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Dear all, Welcome to Global Film Culture . Here is the syllabus (draft): [source of image:http://tubulocity.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bicycle-thief-B.jpg]

Strangerhood in the Metropolis

Georg Simmel, “the Stranger” Also available online at: http://midiacidada.org/img/O_Estrangeiro_SIMMEL.pdf

Flâneur and Dérive: Roaming in The City

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Required Readings Walter Benjamin, “On Some Motifs on Baudelaire”  link : http://pan.baidu.com/s/1bn0EViJ  password: 5ywu Linda Chiu-Han Lai, “ Whither The Walker Goes: Spatial Practices And Negative Poetics In 1990s Chinese Urban Cinema”,  The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema And Society At The Turn Of The Twenty-First Century , eds. Zhang Zhen, 2007  link : http://pan.baidu.com/s/1dDtjuUX   password: 1d23 Reference Reading Marshall Berman, “Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets”  link : http://pan.baidu.com/s/1eQcSrcu   password: v1km Thomas, Mcdonough. “the derive and Situationist Paris”, Situacionistas/Situationists: Arte, Politica, Urbanismo/Art, Politics, Urbanism link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1c08e0og password: 4lyo   Film for discussion: Suzhou River , Dir. Lou Ye, 2000   please download the film's folder here link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1o6mLvL4  password: ...

Week 11* Dec 12th Haunting Cities: the Uncanny and the Ghostly

Required Readings Freud, “Uncanny”, 1919   https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=078a68a0eced7d89df2d1c3ccf6a9ddd Dudley Andrew, “Ghost Towns”, Cinema at the City’s Edge:  Film and Urban Networks in East Asia . Yomi Braester, James Tweedie, eds., Hong Kong University Press: 2010.   https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=4c856d927df5fce63f760f33bf65c827