Cinema and City in Asia
FILM 397
Spring 2021
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| Course Cluster and Certificates: Urban Studies |
This course will look at the representation of the city in Asian cinema. It will explore links between urban and cinematic space across a range of thematic, historical, and cultural concerns. The imagined city of cinema is born at the intersection of mental, physical, and social space. Bringing together a range of cinematic practices and urban experiences, the course will explore how the imagined city becomes the site of the rhythms and movements across Asia--from a space of possibility (conjugal relations and social mobility), to a site of urban poverty, crime, religious violence, gender politics, and migration.
We will watch a wide range of films from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, and Singapore--and learn to critically examine the ways in which cinema becomes an innovative and powerful archive of urban life as it engages with the events and experiences that shape the cultural, social, and political realities of the past, present, and future in Asia. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA FILM |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CEAS-MN)(CEAS-Lit&Cult)(FILM-MN)(FILM) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Course Readings will be provided by Professor and posted to Moodle.
Filmography Includes:
Shri 420/The Gentleman Cheat (Raj Kapoor, India, 1955, 168 min)
Satya/The Truth (Ram Gopal Varma, India, 1998, 167 min, India)
A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon, South Korea, 2006, 120 min.)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea, 2019, 119 min.)
Street Angel (Yuan Muzhi, China, 1937, 91 min.)
Suzhou River (Lou Ye, China, 2000, 83 min.)
Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, Taiwan, 2000, 173 min.)
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 1994, 118 min.)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 1994, 98 min.)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1953, 136 min., Japan)
Tokya Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1966, 83 min.) or Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1936,71 min.)
Sepet (Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia, 2004, 104 min.)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2006, 105 min.)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Class Presentation; Sequence Analysis Paper; Research Essay; Class Participation |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
TBA |
| Instructor(s): Jain,Anuja Times: ..T.R.. 08:50AM-11:50AM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 18 | | SR major: 6 | JR major: 6 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: X | FR: X |
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