WEEK 2/OCT 11 ASIAN CINEMA CULTURE—BETWEEN THE NATIONAL AND THE TRANSNATIONAL I

REMINDER: the classroom has been changed to 
Room１AB@School of Humanities 

[go straight till the end of the corridor, you would see a gloomy classroom at the (other) end of the building--see the images]

Required Readings

Crofts, Stephen. (2006). “Reconceptualizing National Cinema/s”, in Theorising National Cinema, edited by Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen, BFI Publishing, London. P44-58 [CLICK HERE to download]

Reference Readings

Dissanayake, Wimal. (2004). “Introduction: Nationhood, History and Cinema Reflections on The Asian Scene”, in Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema, edited by Wimal Dissanayake, Indiana University Press.[CLICK HERE to download]pp.ix-xxix

NOTE: paper syllabus could be picked up from the paper-box (with a dove image on it) in front of my office.


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WEEK 1/ OCT 4    INTRODUCTION

Required Readings

(for the whole semester):

Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing About Film. 9th. ed. New York: Longman 2014 [download from HERE]