CHINESE CINEMA IN THE 1990s AND 2000s: MAIN MELODY, COMMERCIAL CINEMA AND THE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING

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

NOTE: 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 HERE]

Reference Reading:

NOTE: I MOVE this TO REFERENCE reading
Curtin. Michael. (2012). “Chinese Media in the Global Context”. In Y. Zhang (Ed.), A Companion to Chinese Cinema. Blackwell Publishing. Pp.179-196[click HERE]

Pecic, Zoran Lee. (2016). “Thirdspace of  East Palace, West Palace” In New Queer Sinophone Cinema: Local Histories, Transnational Connections, 25-42. Palgrave Macmillan. [click HERE]

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 [click HERE]