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Through film classics of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the course surveys China's movie history as an index to her historical and cultural developments throughout the modern era. We will focus on films that convey crucial social and political meanings in the context of cultural crises and social turmoils that affected and shaped the filmmakers' intellectual and artistic drive. While critical of cultural stereotypes informed by essentialist views of China, we will examine how key values of the Chinese heritage have been contested and reinvented under changing historical conditions and by such diverse social forms as found in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China. Emphasis will be laid on how the cinematic medium lends itself to colorfully capturing distinct ethnic and cultural ethos, social customs and personal psychology in today's Chinese-speaking worlds. Besides working on films, the course will introduce students to readings of basic theories on cultural production, identity formation and cross-cultural transfer.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA AL&L Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.
Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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