Readings for NEW CHINESE CINEMA IN THE 1980S: THE FIFTH GENERATION (June 2 & 9)

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

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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.

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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 could be downloaded HERE]