CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VISUAL CULTURE (CAVC)

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Homework Viewing: Lost in Translation, 2003 Dir. COPPOLA Sophia Must: 1. Catherine Russell. 2002. “Tokyo, The Movie”, Japan Forum , 14:2, 211-224 2. Iwabuchi, Koichi. 2008. “ Lost in TransNation: Tokyo and the urban imaginary in the era of globalization ”, Inter‐Asia Cultural Studies , 9:4, 543-556, DOI: 10.1080/14649370802386446 Selective Reading : 3. Yomota, Inuhiko, “ Stranger than Tokyo: Space and Race in Postnational Japanese Cinema” , Jenny Kwok Wah Lau eds. Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia . Philadelphia: Temple University Press Added Requirement on Discussion : besides presenting your keywords, each group must choose one film mentioned in the 3 Readings as their example . Presentation time: 10 min, followed by a final Q&A session (try not to read scripts; thanks!)

Required Reading Abbas, Ackbar. 1997. ‘ Introduction: Culture in a Space of Disappearance’ . Hong Kong: Culture and Politics of Disappearance . Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.1-15 Lee, Vivian P. Y. 2009. “Introduction”   Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997: the Post-nostalgic Imagination . London/Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Marchetti, Gina. 2007. ‘ The New Wave and the Generic Abyss’ & ‘ Allegories of Hell:Moral Tales and National Shadows ’. In Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs-the Trilogy . Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.1-8 & 97-116

2nd NCC reading journal due on  June 13th Wed, 5pm notes for  Debating Xianchang: Rethinking Chinese Independent Documentary for  DV China: Chinese Independent Cinema into the 2000s (Discussion)