Week 1: Introduction and A Brief History of Chinese Cinemas
Section outline
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The first week will examine how cinemas in contemporary China problematise the concepts of ‘national cinema’, ‘world cinema’, 'third cinema', and discuss different approaches to understand the so-called ‘Chinese cinema’. It will also provide a brief history of Chinese cinemas and explore how to understand cinemas in contemporary China in relation to its multi-layered cultural and political histories.
Screening: Return to Dust, dir. Li Ruijun, 2022
Link: https://www.dandanzan10.top/dianying/105218.html
Additional viewing: Spring in a small town, dir. Fei Mu, 1948
Link:https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0A43CB66?bcast=116027932
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Reading:
Ewa Mazierska, “World cinema, third cinema”, in Studies in World Cinema 1 (2020) 14-21.
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.
Paul Clark, “Artists, Cadres, and Audiences: Chinese Socialist Cinema, 1949-1979” in A
Companion to Chinese Cinema, edited by Zhang, Yingjin. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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- Please read:
- Chapter 2 Transplanting Melodrama: Observations on the Emergence of Early Chinese Narrative Film
- Chapter 3 Artists, Cadres, and Audiences: Chinese Socialist Cinema, 1949–1978
- Chapter 5 Hong Kong Cinema Before 1980
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