CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

readings Required Readings: “Introduction” (Julian Stringer) & “the Korean Film Industry: 1992 to the Present” (Darcy Parquet), New Korean Cinema , Chi-Yun Shin & Julian Stringer eds. Edinburgh University Press, 2005.  [click HERE to download] David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film History: An Introduction , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010, p655-658 [distributed in class] Reference Reading : Jeon, J. J. 2009. “Residual Selves: Trauma and Forgetting in Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 17 (3): 713–40. doi:10.1215/10679847-2009-021. [click HERE to download] Chape, Esther K, and Chanwook Park. 2006. “Park Chanwook.” Bomb 96 (Summer): 86–91. [click HERE to download]

[source:http://i.imgur.com/Fcz7CKL.jpg] Required Readings: David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film History: An Introduction , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010, p632-637 [distributed in class] Mitsuyo Wada-marciano , “Introduction” & p 51-61 , Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age , University of Hawaii Press, 2013 [CLICK HERE to download] Reference Reading: Ehrlich, Linda C. 2005. “Nobody Knows (Dare Mo Shiranai).” Film Quarterly 59 (2): 45–50. doi:10.1525/fq.2005.59.2.45. [click HERE to download] Film for discussion: Nobody Knows ( 誰も知らない ), Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu, 141min, 2004 [you could loan this film's DVD from me]

Deadline is June 22 (Monday) 10am via email ; )

JUNE 22 /Screening: Oldboy , Dir. Park Chan-Wook, 2003, 120 min. venue: Rm 131 starting from 4:30pm [prepare your own snack and drink in case you are hungry]

Required Reading: (for week 8-11) Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. 2010. Film History: An Introduction , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 637-643 Chris Berry. “East Palace, West Palace-Staging gay life in China ”, Jump Cut , no. 42, December 1998, pp. 84-89 [ http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC42folder/EastWestPalaceGays.html Reference Reading : Lim, Song Hwee. 2006. “The Uses of Femininity: Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine and Zhang Yuan’s East Palace, West Palace ”, Celluloid Comrades Representation of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas . University of Hawai’i Press: 69-98 [distributed in class]