CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

June 2nd (Tuesday)  Screening: Red Sorghum ( 红高粱 ) , Dir. Zhang Yimou, 1987, 88min We will NOT change the classroom; please come to the classroom 131 on time and the film starts at 2:45pm Required Reading: (for both lectures on June 9th and 16th)  Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. 2010. Film History: An Introduction , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 637-643 [distributed in class on May 26th] Hao Xiaoming & Chen Yanru, "The Chinese cinema in the reform era", Journal of Popular Film & Television , spring 2000; 28,1 [CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD] Reference Reading : Silbergeld, Jerome. 1999. China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema . Reaktion Books, 43-61. doi:10.1353/cri.2001.0109. [CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD] Cui Shuqi, Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema , Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003 , 99-115 [whole book co...

Dear all, Please find the WORD version of the Reading Journal Guidance by CLICKING HERE . cheers Ran

Dear all, Please download the NOTEs of today's lecture from this LINK NOTE: password is  the date of the lecture . for instance if the lecture takes place on  January 01, 1900  then the password would be 19000101 ( eight-digit:yyyymmdd) Please do not circulate it beyond the classroom.

Required Readings: Teo, Stephen. "Zhang Che's Macho Self-Refashioning", Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: the Wuxia Tradition , Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 93-107 click HERE Reference Reading: Chung, Stephanie Po-yin. 2007. “Moguls of the Chinese Cinema: The Story of the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, 1924-2002.”  Modern Asian Studies  41 (04): 665–82. doi:10.1017/S0026749X98003011. [click  HERE  to download]

Dear all, if you could make it, please join us for the Screening of ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN by Chang Cheh, 1967. This film will be used for the lecture on Hong Kong cinema (May 26th). If you cannot make it, please WRITE me so that we could loan you the DVD, or whatsoever. Thank you! (Ran. Venue: Room 131 Date & Time: May 18 (Mon), 4:30pm

Dear all, I'm always unhappy with the English subtitles for TWO STAGE SISTERS. Yet, I refrained from performing as Benshi interpreting the film for you, since you are smart enough to make sense of the text.  Anyway, here is the YOUTUBE link to the film, subtitled by some Chinese learner who makes the translations even longer than the one we have... Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYfME4FwWTg

Dear all, I adjusted the readings a bit; adding a new reading into the REQUIRED list, while making Gina's paper a secondary one. Please pay attention to the changes. Required Reading: Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. Film History: An Introduction , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010, p370-373 [distributed in class] Clark, Paul. "Artists, Cadres, and Audiences: Chinese Socialist Cinema, 1949-1978", a Companion to Chinese Cinema . eds. Zhang Yingjin. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012    [distributed in class] Zhang, Yingjin. “Socialist Cinema in Perspective: Stage Sisters and Complexity”, Chinese National Cinema . Routledge, 2008 :212-16  [distributed in class] Reference Reading:  Marchetti, Gina.  “ Two Stage Sisters :  The Blossoming Of A Revolutionary Aesthetic ”,   Jump Cut , no. 34, March, 1989, pp. 95-106  [ http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC34folder/2stageSisters.html ]