Topic Name Description
File Module Handbook
File Sample group project on film curation 01
File Sample group project on film curation 02
Week 1: Introduction and A Brief History of Chinese Cinemas File Reading: World cinema, third cinema
URL “‘Return to Dust’ Review: A Compassionate but Cautious Chinese Drama of Rural Lives Ennobled by Sacrifice”
File Additional reading: Zhang, Zhen. An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: The Actress As Vernacular Embodiment in Early Chinese Film Culture, Camera Obscura, 48 (Volume 16, Number 3), 2001, pp. 228-263.
Book Additional reading: A companion to Chinese cinema

The e-book is available through QM library database. 
File Lecture 1 ppt
Week 2: 28 Jan Generational filmmakers, world cinema and global auteurs 1 File Reading:. ‘The Global Author: Control, Creative Constraints and Performative Self Contradiction’
File Reading: An interview with Zhang Yimou
URL “China on the set with Zhang Yimou” in Sight & Sound
File PDF “China on the set with Zhang Yimou” in Sight & Sound. 01
File PDF “China on the set with Zhang Yimou” in Sight & Sound 02
File Week 2 Lecture PPT
Week 3: 4 Feb Generational filmmakers, world cinema and global auteurs 2 File The Urban Generation Chinese Cinema (Whole Book))
URL link to Jia Zhangke Masterclass
File Week 3 Lecture PPT
Week 4: Local blockbusters, national sentiments and identities File Re nationalizing China s film industry case study on the China Film Group and film marketization
File Reading: "Travel Down Memory Lane: Nostalgia and Nostophobia in Youth (2017)" by Zhu Yin
File Reading:Zhu, Ying. “New Year Film as Chinese Blockbuster: From Feng Xiaogang’s Contemporary Urban Comedy to Zhang Yimou’s Period Drama”
File Film And Society In China - the logic of the market
File The malling of the movies Film exhibition reforms multiplexes and film consumption in the new millennium in urban China
File Week 4 lecture PPT
Week 5: Independent Documentary I: personal filmmaking File Yu, Kiki Tianqi. “Nostalgia toward Laojia: Old Home as an Imagined Past”
QMplus Media Video Link to film: Nostalgia
File Lecture 5 ppt
Week 6: independent documentary II: modes of productions File Reading: Three modes of creative documentary production
File Reading: post-1990 Documentary: Reconfiguring Independence (Whole Book, please read the Introduction))
Week 8: Women’s cinema and the rise of arthouse cinema File Women's cinema PPT
File Reading
File Lecture PPT women's cinema
Week 10: Transnational Chinese cinema and co-productions File Reading: Berry, C. (2010), ‘What is transnational cinema? Thinking from the Chinese situation’ in Transnational Cinemas
File Reading: Weiying Peng & Michael Keane (2019) China’s soft power conundrum, film coproduction, and visions of shared prosperity
File Lecture PPT week 10
Week 11: Ethnic minority cinema & artist moving image File Reading:“Contested Tibetan landscapes in the films of Pema Tseden”
File Reading: Pema Tseden and the Tibetan road movie space and identity beyond the minority nationality film
QMplus Media Video Link to the film Tharlo
File lecuture ppt