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

Artist Hito Steyerl is hosting a summit at the ICA where radical thinkers working at the forefront of postdigital fields will come together to respond to the concept of FOMO in the age of  the internet via dismagazine.com

Week 3★Apr 27th GEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN TBA Week 5★May 11th ENGAGING CONTEMPORARY MOVING IMAGES Shihao Week 6★May 18th HARUN FAROCKI Brad Week 7★May 25th ACTING AGAINST THE REGIME: ACT OF KILLING Huiyan Week 8★June 1st REMEMBERING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Jiamin+Jiapeng Week 11★June 22nd FORGETTING OKINAWA Aidana+Chris Week 12★June 29th THAT ERA OF REVOLUTION AND MOVEMENT Hao Week 14★July 13th POTATOES, MUD, AND THE HAUNTING HISTORY [group presentation]

No Man's Land Christian Boltanski You are faced with a mountain of about nine tons of used clothing. A crane continuously picks up and drops the pieces of clothes. This installation reflects on Boltanski's eternal theme of "life and death" and "memory" click HERE

MR here: Please be prepared with 2-3 questions for each of the readings. Required Reading: 1. Ranciere, Jacques, and Steve Corcoran. 2015. ‘Editor’s Introduction’ & “the  Paradoxes of Political Art”. Dissensus: on politics and aesthetics. 1-24 &134-151 [click HERE for the whole book; please turn to the right pages ; )] 2. Ranciere, Jacques. 2004. "Introducing disagreement". Angelaki. 9 (3): 3-9. [click HERE ] 3. “Art of the Possible: Fulvia Carnevale and John Kelsey In Conversation With Jacques Ranciére”, Artforum International, Vol. 45. No.7, 2007 [click HERE ] Reference Readings: Wolters, Eugene. “Who the Fuck is Jacques Rancière”,  http://www.critical-theory.com/who-the-fuck-is-jacques-ranciere/

Final Paper: Due on Feb 12 th (Mon) Write a 2500-word essay (typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, and 1” margins all around; refer to Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html) SUBMISSION : Please submit the essay to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “Final Paper SEMINAR”; format your file name as ‘SEMINAR final paper + Your Name’. I’d send out confirmation email once your assignment is received. Late submission is not accepted unless emergency happens. Format Include the following information at the top of each assignment: Your Name Course Title Submission Date Final Paper                                                     ...

WEEK 15/January 26 th Screening: Okja , 2017. Dir. Bong Joon-ho (streaming on Netflix) WEEK 1 6 /February 2 nd    Group Presentations Suggested Readings: Christina Klein. "Why American Studies Needs to Think about Korean Cinema, or, Transnational Genres in the Films of Bong Joon-ho."  American Quarterly  60, no. 4 (2008): 871-898. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed September 11, 2017). [click HERE ] Chung, Hye Seung. & Diffrient, David Scott. 2015. “Introduction: South Korean Cinema’s Transnational Trajectories.” In Movie migrations : transnational genre flows and South Korean cinema.   Rutgers University Press. [click HERE ] Taylor, Brandon . 2016. “ The Ideological Train to Globalization: Bong Joon-ho's The Host and Snowpiercer ”. Cineaction , 98. [click HERE ]

NO THESIS WORKSHOP! FINAL PAPER DUE ON  FEB 5th, Monday WEEK 15/January 26 th Screening: Okja , 2017. Dir. Bong Joon-ho (streaming on Netflix) WEEK 1 6 /February 2 nd    Group Presentations Suggested Readings: Christina Klein. "Why American Studies Needs to Think about Korean Cinema, or, Transnational Genres in the Films of Bong Joon-ho."  American Quarterly  60, no. 4 (2008): 871-898. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed September 11, 2017). Chung, Hye Seung. & Diffrient, David Scott. 2015. “Introduction: South Korean Cinema’s Transnational Trajectories.” In Movie migrations : transnational genre flows and South Korean cinema.   Rutgers University Press. Taylor, Brandon . 2016. “ The Ideological Train to Globalization: Bong Joon-ho's The Host and Snowpiercer ”. Cineaction , 98. WEEK 17/February 9 th     Thesis Workshop