Week 3★ May 8th TRANSNATIONAL CINEMA, THE JAPANESE CASE


『散歩する侵略者』

before we vanish by Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2017




HOMEWORK VIEWING:
you could Watch Retribution (Sakebi, 2007) by KUROSAWA Kiyoshi, or other K's 'horror' films mentioned by Posadas. If you encounter difficulties finding his films, write to us!


Required Reading
[sorry, Lim's added back to the list of REQUIRED; due to the volume, you may want to start reading earlier]

Posadas, B. (2014). Fantasies of the End of the World: The Politics of Repetition in the Films of Kurosawa KiyoshiPositions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 22(2), 429-460.
NOTE: especially great for advanced film students and MAs.


Lim, Song Hwee. 2011. “Transnational Trajectories in Contemporary East Asian Cinemas”, in East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations, edited by Vivian P. Y. Lee, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 15-32
NOTE: I recommend this one to all levels' of students. We will focus on this reading in the lecture.Very fundamental reading for those who are going to use transnational cinema as their research framing.


Miyao, D. (2019). How can we talk about ‘transnational’ when we talk about Japanese cinema? Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 11(2), 109–116. 
NOTE: also the focus of the lecture.

Brown S.T. (2018) Double Trouble: Doppelgängers in Japanese Horror. In: Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations. East Asian Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
NOTE: sorry, it will be one of the reference readings.

Lim, Chua Bliss. (2011).“the Ghostliness of Genre”, Translating Time: Cinema, The Fantastic, And Temporal Critique, Duke University Press, p190-219 [full chapter p190-244]
[note:this is one of my beloved readings on genre and temporality]

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