東亞電影
East Asian Cinema
| 節 | 週五 |
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2 09:00–09:50 | 東亞電影 F326 3 節連堂 |
3 10:10–11:00 | |
4 11:10–12:00 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
A selective survey of East Asian cinema practices and theories – with a central focus on Japan within an interasian perspective and commitment.
Regular attendance and participation in class. Viewing films; At least one in-class presentation; an abstract of the final paper; final paper.
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Introduction |
| 第 2 週 | What is Japanese Film Theory ● In-class Screening: Stray Dog (Kurosawa Akira 1947) ● Readings: Sato Tadao, "Does Film Theory Exist in Japan?"; Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, "Japanese Cinema in Search of a Discipline" |
| 第 3 週 | Japan in Taiwan By 9/29 Earl Jackson presentation on Japanese Cinematic Melancholia in Interasian Contexts ● Readings: Earl Jackson, "Reframing Loss: Japanese Cinematic Melancholia in Interasian Contexts"; Hou Hsiao-Hsien: "Cinema and History: Critical Reflections" |
| 第 4 週 | [Before this class please watch City of Sadness.] ● In-class Screening: 戲夢人生 (侯孝賢 1993) ● Readings: Rosemary Haddon, "Hou Hsiao-Hsien's City of Sadness: History and the Dialogic Female Voice"; Nick Browne, "Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Puppetmaster: The Poetics of Landscape" Kim Soyoung, "Postcolonial Historiography in Taiwan and South Korea: Chiwaseon and The Puppetmaster" |
| 第 5 週 | *NO Class. *Make-up to be arranged. *Please watch: 儀式 (大島渚 1971) ろくでなし(吉田喜重 1960) [link will be provided] |
| 第 6 週 | ● In-class Screening: 絞死刑 (大島渚 1968) ● Readings: Isolde Standish, "Film and Philosophy: Towards a Cinema of Praxis"; David Desser, Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave [excerpts]. |
| 第 7 週 | Looking Back: -Image and Commentary in Japanese Silent Cinema ● In-Class Screening: 折鶴お千 (溝口健二 1934). ● Readings: Chika Kinoshita, "The Benshi Track: Mizoguchi Kenji's The Fall of Osen and the Sound Transition"; Fujiki Hideaki, "Benshi as Stars"; Isolde Standish, "Mediators of Modernity: 'Photo-Interpreters' in Japanese Silent Cinema". *Note: the Campus Visit of Korean filmmaker Yi Sangwoo, and the screening of four of his films 10/25 and 10/26 |
| 第 8 週 | Comparative Modernities *Note: the screenings of Classic Chinese Cinema [10.19 – 18:30神女 (吳永剛 1934) and 10.31, 18:30漁光曲 (蔡楚生 1934) ] ● In-class: Excerpts from Shanghai Cinema of the 1930s, Japanese "modern girl" films of the 1920s-30s. ● Readings: Yingjin Zhang, Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai: 1922-1943 [excerpts]; Zhang Zhen, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai 1896-1937 [excerpts]; Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s . (Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, 2008) [excerpts] |
| 第 9 週 | Japanese Cinema Practice as Implicit Theory ● In-class: Excerpts from Kinoshita Keisuke; Kawashima Yuzo; Ito Daisuke; et alia. ● Readings: Gonda Yasunosuke, "The Principles and Applications of the Moving Pictures"; Aaron Gerow, "The Process of Theory: Reading Gonda Yasunosuke and Early Film Theory." |
| 第 10 週 | Chinese film Practice and Theory ● In-class screenings: Excerpts from 馬路天使 (袁牧之 1937); 十字街頭 (沈西苓 1937); 夜半歌聲 (馬徐維邦 1937). ● Readings: Victor Fan, Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory (U of Minnesota P, 2015) excerpts: “Approaching Reality: Chinese Ontology and the Potentiality of Time” “Cinema of Thought: Directed Consciousness in Chinese Marxist Film Theory” |
| 第 11 週 | The Korean Question ● In-class Screening: Old Boy (Park Chan-wook 2003); ● Readings: Earl Jackson, "Borrowing Trouble: Old Boy as Adaptation and Intervention" |
| 第 12 週 | The Melodrama and its Japanese Agendas ● In-class presentation on Yoshimura Kozaburo and Masumura Yasuzo by Earl Jackson. ● Readings: Michael Reine, "Modernism Without Modernity: Masumura Yasuzo's Giants and Toys"; excerpts from Masumura Yasuzo –translated by Earl Jackson. |
| 第 13 週 | The Sun Tribe: Sex, Youth and Violence ● In-Class Screening: 狂った果実 (中平康 1956); Excerpts from other films. ● Readings: Isolde Standish. Politics, Porn, and Protest. Japanese Avant-garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s [excerpts]; David Desser, Eros Plus Massacre [excerpts] |
| 第 14 週 | The New Wave: Yoshida Kiju ● In-class Screening of Excerpts from his entire career. ● Readings: Yoshida Kiju: "My Theory of Film: A Logic of Self-Negation"; Patrick Noonan: "The Alterity of Cinema: Subjectivity, Self-Negation, and Self-Realization in Yoshida Kiju's Film Criticism' |
| 第 15 週 | Yakuza Delirium: Suzuki Seijun and Nikkatsu ● In-class Screening: TBA |
| 第 16 週 | Hong Kong Cinema ● In-class screening: excerpts from several decades. |
| 第 17 週 | In-class presentations of final paper proposal/abstracts. |
Reader available in Library Copy Center. Other pdf handouts will be provided. Desser, David. Eros plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988. Print. Fan, Victor. Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 2015. Print. Gerow, Aaron. Decentering Theory: Reconsidering the History of Japanese Film Theory. Sakado: Josai International Center for the Promotion of Art and Science, Josai U, 2010. Print. Jackson, Earl. “Entertaining Otherness: Difference in Contemporary Japanese Cinema.” Iconics 9 (Fall 2008): 25-46. Print. Jackson, Earl. “Reframing Loss: Japanese Cinematic Melancholia in Interasian Contexts.” Phillips, Alastair, and Julian Stringer, eds. Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts. London: Routledge, 2008. Print. Standish, Isolde. Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. New York: Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011. Print. Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo. Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. Honolulu: U of Hawai'i, 2008. Print. Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema. Durham: Duke UP, 2005. Print. Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. "Question of the New: Oshima Nagisa’s Cruel Story of Youth." Ed. Alastair Phillips. Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Julian Stringer. London: Routledge, 2008. 168-79. Print.
- 地點
- Office HC 405
- 時間
- Office Hours: Weds 13:20-15:20 or by apt.
- 聯絡方式
- earljac@gmail.com