CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

WEEK 8 * JUNE 2RD Screening: East Palace, West Palace ( 东宫西宫 ), Dir. Zhang Yuan, 1996, 90min WEEK 9 * JUNE 9 TH Meidai Sai: No Class WEEK 10* JUNE 16 TH Lecture Required Reading: (FOR WEEK 7-10) Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. (2010). Film History: An Introduction , McGraw-Hill Higher Education, pp.637-643 [you got it already!] Berry ， Chris. (1998) “East Palace, West Palace-Staging gay life in China ”, Jump Cut , no. 42, December, pp. 84-89 [ http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC42folder/EastWestPalaceGays.html N OTE: this is newly added. Berry, Chris. Rofel, Lisa. 'Introduction'. The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement:  For the Public Record . Hong Kong University Press. [3-13] [click HERE ] Zhang, Zhen & Zito, Angela. (2015). “Introduction”, Zhang, Zhen, and Angela Zito, eds. DV-made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations After Independent Film . University of Hawaii. [click HE...

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Due Date: July 3 rd MONDAY 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 . For students who think they might be too ‘shy’ to speak in class, it would be a great opportunity for you to make up for the lost chances for in-class debates and discussions. Design your own syllabus for a ‘post-1945 Asian film history’ course. In the syllabus, you are expected to offer us a three-week breakdown of readings and themes that you want to focus on. The format would be free. But for bibliographical items, please follow CMS. These three weeks could be threaded together in the fashion/logic of national cinema (as I have done with PRC cinema), but could also be three independent topics. You are welcome to follow my styl...