POTATOES, MUD AND THE HAUNTING HISTORY
Required Readings: Sohl Lee. "Cinema as Ritual Space-- Muel O's Jiseul " ." Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 36 (2015): 171. [click HERE ]
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THAT ERA OF REVOLUTION AND MOVEMENT
Required Readings: Alberto Toscano and Go Hirasawa, “Walls of Flesh: The Films of Koji Wakamatsu (1965–1972)”, Film Quarterly , Vol. 66, No. 4 (Summer 2013), pp. 41-49 [click HERE to download] Note: the password is the room number of our classroom (3-digit) Online resource: Texts concerning Adachi Masao, http://www.bordersphere.com/events/adachi3.htm Films for Discussion: PFLP: Declaration of World Order ・ 赤軍 ‐ PFLP 世界戦争宣言 , Dir. Wakamatsu Koji, 1971 youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcBSCCNXtcM
Readings for Week 10-WEEK 11/JULY 7TH FORGETTING OKINAWA
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]
readings for WEEK 9/JUNE 23RD REMEMBERING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
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/
WEEK 3/APRIL 28TH READING JACQUES RANCIÈRE I
NOTE(UPDATED): Sequence of reading: Week 3----"regimes of the arts" Reading No. 1+ No.3 Week 4----" Partage du sensible’: the Distribution of the sensible " No. 4+ No. 3 Week 5----No. 2 Please come either with your question(s) or a keyword/concept (with an example). Required Reading (for Week 3-5) : 1. Deranty, Jean-Philippe. “Regimes of the arts”, in Jacques Rancière: Key Words , edited by Jean-Philippe Deranty, Acumen Publishing Limited, 2010, pp116-130 [download HERE together with No. 4--they are put in ONE PDF file] 2. Rancière , Jacques. “Aesthetics as Politics” Aesthetics And Its Discontents , translated from the French by Steven Corcoran, Polity, 2009, pp19-44 [distribute in class] 3. Tanke, Joseph J. “Chapter 3: Retrieving the Politics of Aesthetics”, Jacques Rancière: An Introduction—Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics , Continuum, pp73-109 [distribute in class] 4. Panagia, Davide. “’Partage du sensible’: the Distribut...