Week 7★May 25th Debating Xianchang: Rethinking Chinese Independent Documentary

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Homework Viewing:

Bumming in Beijing/流浪北京
[link embedded in the title]
Dir. WU Wenguang/吳文光




Required Reading

Berry, Chris. & Lisa Rofel. 2010. “Introduction”. In Berry, Chris, Xinyu Lü, and Lisa Rofel eds. The new Chinese documentary film movement: for the public record. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [click HERE]

Robinson, Luke. 2013. “Introduction” & “Sound and Voice” In Chinese Independent Documentary, 12-33 & 130-138. [ pay attention to the pages you read--for Sound and Voice, we only want you to read by page 138]


Reference Reading
(for Week 7 & 8) Manovich, Lev. 2007. “From DV Realism to a Universal Recording Machine.” David Bell and Barbara M Kennedy, The Ciberculture Reader, 174–82. [click HERE]

Pernin, Judith. 2010. “Filming Space / Mapping Reality in Chinese Independent Documentary Films.” China Perspectives [Online], 2010/1 | 2010, Online since 01 April 2013, connection on 14 February 2018. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/5052.  [click HERE]

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