Theories II: Body, Gender & Sexuality Week 10★Dec 7th
Homework Viewing Pulp Fiction Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1994
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Week 7★Nov 16th
THIS ONE WOULD BE THE MAIN READING: Thomas Elsaesser, " Tales of Sound and Fury, " M. Landis (ed), Imitiations of Life: Explorations of Melodrama (Ohio: Wayne State UP, 1991) 44-79. 2 essays related to this one Hansen, Miriam Bratu. “Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons: Shanghai Silent Film as Vernacular Modernism,” Film Quarterly 54:1 (2000): 10-22. [click HERE ] Elsaesser, T. (2014). From Dysfunctional Families to Productive Pathologies : Melodrama Trauma Mind-Games. Journal of the Moving Image , 26-45. Brooks, P. (1995). ‘the Melodramatic Imagination’. The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess . Yale University Press.pp.1-23 [CLICK HERE; note: the whole book is uploaded so you just turn need to read the required pages]
Week 6★Nov 9th
Required Readings: Ahmed, S. (2004). ‘Introduction: Feel Your Way ’ . The Cultural Politics of Emotion . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,pp.1-19 [click HERE for the whole book; please only read the intro] NOTE: I think this one shall be the focus. Berlant, L., (2006). ‘Cruel Optimism’. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies , 17(3), pp.20–36.[click HERE ]
Week 3★Oct 19th Asian Media Landscape II
Homework Viewing TV drama adaptations of 花より男子 /Boys over Flower Different versions across Asia are warmly encouraged Week 3 ★ Oct 19 th Asian Media Landscape II (Xinyi) Required Reading : Lamarre, Thomas. (2015) “Regional Tv: Affective Media Geographies.” Asiascape: Digital Asia 2. January: 93–126. [CLICK HERE ] Jie, Yang. (2014). ‘Introduction: The politics of affect and emotion: imagination, potentiality and anticipation in East Asia’. In Yang, J., The political economy of affect and emotion in East Asia J. Yang, ed., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Pp3-28. [CLICH HERE ]