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

SCREENING 2046 , Dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2004 Dec 5 th (Monday), Venue: Rm. 131, Time: 4:30pm~ [CLICK CONTINUE TO READ]

http://www.jugendohnefilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Goodbye-Dragon-Inn.png WEEK 8/NOV 24 ST    Screening Goodbye Dragon Inn , Dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, 82min   [COMPULSORY] WEEK 9/DEC 1 ST    SEMINAR SESSION: CASE STUDY OF TSAI MINGLIANG’S FILMS Required Reading : Kenneth Chan. “Goodbye Dragon Inn: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Political Aesthetics Of Nostalgia, Place, And Lingering”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas , Vol No.1 Issue 2, 2007 [click HERE ] “Leaving The Cinema: Metacinematic Cruising  in Tsai Ming-liang’s  Goodbye, Dragon Inn” , Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, Jump Cut , No. 50, spring 2008 [click HERE ] Lim, Song-hwee. “nolstagic lingering”, “Ambivalent Nolstagia” & nostalgia as dreamspace, Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness, University of Hawai’I Press, 2014 distribute in class

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you could watch the short here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLwjtsIY3hs&t=1241s TAKEN FROM HERE [https://www.tumblr.com/search/a%20letter%20from%20hiroshima] Suwa once said, “The tragedy can be seen and understood only through foreign eyes.”. He then explains this is what fascinated him of  Hiroshima Mon Amour that it was filmed by French director and acted both by Japanese and French actor/actress. He also said “Japanese people can’t see or talk about this city. It’s both too intimate and too immense.” That perhaps is why Suwa or Robert’s father who both directly experienced the event said almost nothing about it, as it is narrated in  A Letter from Hiroshima . It seems that’s why he invites Hojung, a Korean woman to Hiroshima to work with him but just lets her explore the city. But then, Faji, a Korean National in Japan, also discusses the event and shares her feelings with Hojung which according to me, suggests what he means by ‘foreign’ could be anyone who...

SCREENING http://visuels.mpcollector.com/Jeux_de_photos/Shower.jpg Shower , Dir. Zhang Yang, 1999 Nov 14th (Monday), Venue: Rm 131, Time: 4:30pm~ WEEK 7/NOV 17 TH    THE DISAPPEARING CITY: RUINS & MONUMENTS II Required Reading Sheldon H. Lu , “ Tear Down The City: Reconstructing Urban Space In Contemporary Chinese Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art”, The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema And Society At The Turn Of The Twenty-First Century , eds. Zhang Zhen, 2007 [distribute in class] Wu Hung, “ Ruins , Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/postmodern ”, Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art , Blue Kingfisher , 2009, p59-66 [click HERE ] Film for discussion: 100 Flowers Hidden Deep , Dir.:Chen Kaige (available at YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3JDUtJi2hY );  Shower , Dir. Zhang Yang, 1999

Week 4/Oct 27 th Screening: Hiroshima Mon Amour , Dir. Alain Resnais, 1959 Week 5 NOV 3 National Holiday: No Class Week 6/Nov 10 th     Seminar Session        Required Readings Required Readings Mercken-Spaas, Godelieve “Destruction and Reconstruction in  Hiroshima, Mon Amour ”,  Literature/Film Quarterly , 1980 Vol. 8, No. 4, p244-250 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1iCIatGj0eLNXh5QVFZTGZ4dWc/view?usp=sharing James Tweedie, “Walking in the City ”,  The Age Of New Waves: Art Cinema And The Staging Of Globalization , Oxford University Press, 2013, p83-128 【distribute in class】 Moses, John W., “Vision Denied in  Night and Fog  and  Hiroshima Mon Amour ”.   Literature Film Quarterly . 1987, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p159. 5p. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1iCIatGj0eLVUJzamIwY3JrSGM/view?usp=sharing

Required Reading Yomi Braester, “Arriving in the City; Touring the City; Watching the City”, Cinema at the City’s Edge:  Film and Urban Networks in East Asia. Yomi Braester, James Tweedie, eds., Hong Kong University Press: 2010. http://pan.baidu.com/s/15QCvM Mark Shiel. “Cinema and the City in History and Theory”, Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context, ed. Tony Fitzmaurice and Mark Shiel, 2001 [distributed in class] Reference Reading Bernard Tschumi, “Six Concepts”, Architecture and Disjunction, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.227-259 http://pan.baidu.com/s/1AAuqF Film for discussion: Sans Soleil , Dir. Chris Marker, 1983 (also refer to Tokyo-ga , Dir. Wim Wenders, 1985)