WEEK 5/NOV 1 SCREENING CHINA II—FROM UNDERGROUND TO INDEPENDENT, AND TO DV-MADE CHINA



Special Screening

Summer Palace颐和园
Dir. Lou Ye/婁燁, 2006
Oct 29th   MONDAY; 4:30pm /Venue: Rm 131
All is Welcome!!!



NOTE: if you cannot make it to the screening, please email ma ran, so you could reserve the DVD and borrow it from me, and watch it on your own. There is also an online-version


click HERE to download the notes from [SCREENING CHINA I—STARTING/ENDING WITH THE FIFTH GENERATION?]
[link expires by October 31]

WEEK 5/NOV 1 SCREENING        CHINA       II—FROM UNDERGROUND TO INDEPENDENT, AND TO DV-MADE CHINA
Required Readings
Zhang, Z., 2007. ‘Introduction: Bearing Witness: Chinese Urban Cinema in the Era of "Transformation"
 (zhuanxing)’ in the urban generation: Chinese cinema and society at the turn of the twenty-first century, 
edited by Zhang Zhen. Durham: Durham: Duke University Press.pp1-45 [CLICK here for download; 
expires by Nov 3]

NOTE: for 1st and 2nd years, if you find this one a bit challenging, you could actually refer back to the 
ZHANG YINGJIN article from last week, and also the No.1 reference reading by Lin from this week (on 
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola)
 
Reference Readings
1. Lin, X., 2010. ‘Introduction’. Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema, Honolulu: Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.pp1-29. [cliCK here to download]

2. Huang, Yiju. (2010)"By Way of Melancholia: Remembrance of Tiananmen Square Incident in Summer Palace." Asian Cinema 21.1: 165-178. [cliCK here to download]

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