CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

Required Readings Michael, Baskett. The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan , p1-12, 72-84 [NOTE: you will download the whole book from here; please read the assigned pages]   https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=605a994c35f01fa33626907452693a1e Li, Jie. “A National Cinema for A Puppet State: The Manchurian Motion Picture Association”, The  Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas . Edited by Carlos Rojas and Eileen Chow. , Oxford University Press, 2013, p79-97 【you will have a copy of this reading on Nov 12】 Sookyeong, Hong. “Between Ideology and Spectatorship: The “Ethnic Harmony” of the Manchuria Motion Picture Corporation, 1937–1945 ” , Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review ,   Volume 2, Number 1, May 2013 , p114-135 https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=bc191116e4958f3695d314d6b32f30b1

Dear all, please do not circulate them beyond classroom use. Shadow Play in Context https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=50ddfb2b1185e6fa86297e8a4e7baca7 Fallen Woman of Shanghai https://nuss.nagoya-u.ac.jp/public.php?service=files&t=04a01734ddd90c4f467605122608f798

Film for Discussion (no in-class screening) Sisters of the Gion [ 祇園 の 姉 妹 ] , dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936 (available at YouTube with English subtitle) LINK:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrMlL4GSq7k Required Readings Kirihara, Donald. “Sisters Of Gion”. Patters of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s . Madison,WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, p116-136 David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film History: An Introduction (3 rd edition), MdGraw Hill Higher Education, 2010, p226-228 NOTE: you will have the readings in paper format on Nov 28th