CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

Sisters of the Gion [ 祇園 の 姉 妹 ] , dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936 (available at YouTube with English subtitle) WATCH IT HERE : Required Readings Kirihara, Donald. “Sisters Of Gion”. Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s . Madison,WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, p116-136 [click HERE ] David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film History: An Introduction (3 rd edition), MdGraw Hill Higher Education, 2010, p226-235 [click HERE ] NOTE： page number changed READING UPDATE FOR the second generation article Tony Rayns, “The Second Generation”,  Electric Shadows: A Century Of Chinese Cinema , eds. James Bell, BFI, 2014, p16-27 [click HERE ]

Film Journal No.2 Due on Dec 7 th (Wed), 5pm via email : Centre Stage 「 阮玲玉 」 , Dir. Stanley Kwan, 1992, 118 min Screening of this film:  Nov 21 st (Monday) Rm 131, 4:30pm~ IMPORTANT: In this project, you could work with TWO films, namely Centre Stage (a semi-biopic of Ruan made in the 1990s; includes both archival footages and Maggie Cheung’s reenactment of some of Ruan’s best performance, a must see) and Goddess ; could focus on either of them—attention could be paid to 30s Shanghai cinema, Ruan’s stardom, and if you are interested, it would be great to see what you think is “new” with the biopic of Ruan, especially regarding how it might help you to consider in which manner her screen persona/real-life story register the idea of “fallen woman”.   As usual, at least ONE reference should be from here: Required Readings Kristine Harris, “The Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai,” in Chris Berry, ed.  Chinese Films in Focus II [fo...

Due Date: Dec 21 st (Wed), 5pm Please submit the project (preferably in WORD document) to the lecturer’s email address maran@lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp with the subject “Take Home Project AFH”. I’d send out confirmation email once your assignment is received. Late submission is not accepted unless emergency happens. EARLIER submission is possible. Guiding idea : For the whole semester, we have compressed the (East) Asian film history into several lectures and screenings, yet more wonderful films might have been ignored and are not mentioned/discussed in detail. It is a pity. This THP therefore encourages you to re-discover films that are not screened/addressed in our class but are of importance for us to approach pre-1945 Asian Film History. In this THP, you are required to 1)       Discover and research on ONE or TWO pre-1945 Asian films (if 2 films, you might want to emphasize their connections/similarities etc.) related to any historical...