Week 7&8 SCREENING JAPAN I —TOUR DE FORCE OF THE MAESTROS

NOTES on SCREENING       CHINA       III—SINOPHONECINEMA?[expires by Nov 15th]

maybe you want to start your reading earlier? you have 2 weeks ; )

WEEK 7 /NOV 15         Screening: Ugetsu (雨月物語), Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi/溝口健二, 1953, 96min [compulsory]

WEEK 8/NOV22   SCREENING JAPAN I —TOUR DE FORCE OF THE MAESTROS

NOTE: sequence adjusted

Required Readings

Tezuka, Yoshiharu. (2011). “Chapter 2: Internationalization of Japanese Cinema: How Japan Was Different from The West and Above Asia Before Globalization”, Japanese Cinema Goes Global: Filmworkers’ Journeys, University of Hong Kong Press, p25-59 [page changed; click HERE]

Reference Readings

for Year-3-and-above students who are interested in national cinema and globalization of Japanese cinema, you should read this!

Dorman, Andrew. (2016).  “Chapter 1: Cultural Specificity and Globalization”. Paradoxical Japaneseness: Cultural Representation in 21st Century Japanese Cinema. p23-60 Palgrave McMillian. [CLICK HERE]