Week 12★June 29th Tokyo, or Elsewhere (Discussion)



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!)

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

READINGS Mizoguchi’s Fallen Women

POSTWAR JAPANESE CINEMA: HOW TO REMEMBER/FORGET THE WAR?