Films
ART 350, CHINESE CINEMA
Screening Schedule, Fall Term 2009
Films are shown in DVD or videotape format on Monday evenings at 7:30 in 106 McCormick Hall. All films have English-language subtitles. Please direct inquiries to the course professor.
September 21
Intense Visuality: Film as a Fine Art
Suzhou River
(China, director Lou Ye, 2000)
September 28
History in Film and the History of Film
Yellow Earth
(China, director Chen Kaige, 1984)
October 5
The Chinese Family Model
Yi Yi
(Taiwan, director Edward Yang, 2000)
October 12
Gender and Sexuality
Judou
(China, director Zhang Yimou, 1993)
October 19
Youth, Ethnicity, Education
Horse Thief
(China, director Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1985)
October 26
Modernization and Post-Socialism: Hopes and Fears
Ermo
(China, director Zhou Xiaowen, 1996)
November 9
The Politics of Narrative Form: Melodrama and Embodiment−Truth, Deception, Censorship
In the Heat of the Sun
(China, director Jiang Wen, 1994)
November 16
Cinema, Artistic Status, and the Sister Arts: Painting and Literature, Photography, Music and Theater
Farewell My Concubine
(China, director Chen Kaige, 1993)
November 23
Violence, Social Stability, and the Politics of Justice
Devils on the Doorstep
(China, director Jiang Wen, 2000)
November 30
Chinese Eco-Cinema
The World
(China, director Jia Zhangke, 2004)
December 7
Defining "China" in a Global Culture, I: Taiwan's On-Going Colonial Crisis
Good Men, Good Women
(Taiwan, director Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1995)
December 14
Defining "China" in a Global Culture, II: Repression, Rebellion, and Escapism in Hong Kong
Peking Opera Blues
(Hong Kong, director Tsui Hark, 1987)