Week 2: 28 Jan Generational filmmakers, world cinema and global auteurs 1
Section outline
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This week will discuss the 5th generation director emerged in the 1980s. It will explore the notion of generational cinema in China within the context of world cinema and the production of global auteurs by international film festivals.
Screening: Raise the Red Lantern, dir. Zhang Yimou, 1991
Link to watch the full film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMwHE8Po-oc ;
Reading:
Elsaesser, Thomas. ‘The Global Author: Control, Creative Constraints and Performative Self Contradiction’ in The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Reynaud, Berenice. “China on the set with Zhang Yimou” in Sight & Sound (inc. Monthly Film Bulletin) Volume: 1 Issue 3 (1991) ISSN: 0037-4806 Online ISSN: 2515-5164
https://reader-exacteditions-com.ezproxy.library.qmul.ac.uk/issues/58124/spread/29
Tan Ye and Zhang Yimou, “From the Fifth to the Sixth Generation: An Interview with Zhang Yimou” in Film Quarterly, Winter, 1999-2000, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Winter, 1999-2000), pp. 2-13.
