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1) Rethinking Korean Wave

WEEK 14/Jan 19 th Jin, Dal Yong. 2006. “ Cultural Politics in Korea's Contemporary Films under Neoliberal Globalization .  Media, Culture and Society . 28:1.5-23 [click  HERE ] Kim, Jeongmee. Michael A. Unger & Keith B. Wagner (2017) “Beyond Hallyu: Innovation, Social Critique, and Experimentation in South Korean Cinema and Television”, Quarterly Review of Film and Video , 34:4, 321-332, DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2016.1241623 [click HERE ] Kwon, Seung-Ho, and Joseph Kim. 2014. “The Cultural Industry Policies of the Korean Government and the Korean Wave.” International Journal of Cultural Policy 20 (4). Routledge: 422–39. doi:10.1080/10286632.2013.829052. [click HERE ]                            NO NEED:  2016. “The Rise of the New Korean Wave”. New Korean Wave Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of So...

Rethinking the “Chinese Dream”/zhongguomeng

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Homework Viewing: Lost in Thailand/ 泰囧 , 2012. Dir. Xu Zheng 【 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLW9Ob5b5s 】 WEEK 12/December 22 nd Required Readings SOFT POWER READING Yang, Fan. 2015. “ Crazy Stone ,  National Cinema, and Counterfeit (Film) Culture ” & “ Conclusion: Cultural Imperialism and the “Chinese Dream ” In Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (Global Research Studies) , CORRECTED: Introduction [click HERE ] & 169-202 [click HERE ]. Indiana University Press. Li , Dian, and Shuang Luo. 2017. “The Selfie of the Other   : The Chinese Dream in Films and Tourism.” Asian Cinema 28 (1): 39–54. 【click HERE 】

WEEK 11/ December 15th A Case Study of Jia Zhangke

WEEK 11/ December 15 th Required Readings Yomi Braester. 2015. "The Spectral Return of Cinema: Globalization and Cinephilia in Contemporary Chinese Film."  Cinema Journal  55, no. 1: 29-51. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed September 4, 2017).  [click HERE ] Fan, Victor. 2017. “Revisiting Jia Zhangke, Individuality, Subjectivity, and autonomy in Contemporary Chinese Independent Cinema”, in Global Auteur, the Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema . Edited by Seung-hoon Jeong, Jeremi Szaniawski . Bloomsbury.  THE WHOLE MOBI/KINDLE book is shared HERE , please DL by Dec 12th.  Reference Reading: [previously REQUIRED reading] Liao, Hongfei. 2014. “Thinking the Inutility: Temporality, Affect, and Embodiment in Useless and Walker .” In Transnational Chinese Cinema: Corporeality, Desire, and Ethics of Failure . Edited by Brian Bergen-Aurand, Mary Mazzilli, Hee Wai-Siam. Los Angeles, CA : Bridge21 Publications, 137-157 [click HERE ] ...