Week 7★June 5th DEBATING XIANCHANG: RETHINKING CHINESE INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY

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Homework Viewing:
Bumming in Beijing/流浪北京, 1990
Dir. WU Wenguang/吳文光
[available on YouTube; CLICK THE TITLE]

PLEASE WATCH THE FILM OR ANY TITLE MENTIONED BY BERRY AND PPL
OTHERWISE WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AND I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO TEACH...YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN RIGHT?

Required Reading
(for Week 7 & 8) Manovich, Lev. 2007. “From DV Realism to a Universal Recording Machine.” David Bell and Barbara M Kennedy, The Cyberculture Reader, 174–82.

Berry, Chris. & Lisa Rofel. 2010. “Introduction”. In Berry, Chris, Xinyu Lü, and Lisa Rofel eds. The new Chinese documentary film movement: for the public record. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.


Reference Reading
Pernin, Judith. 2010. “Filming Space / Mapping Reality in Chinese Independent Documentary Films.” China Perspectives [Online], 2010/1 | 2010, Online since 01 April 2013, connection on 14 February 2018. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/5052. 

Robinson, Luke. 2013. “Introduction” & “Sound and Voice” In Chinese Independent Documentary, 12-33 & 130-150.

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