Week 3: 4 Feb Generational filmmakers, world cinema and global auteurs 2
Section outline
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This week will explore works by the 6th generation directors, led by Wang Xiaoshuai, Jiang Wen, Lou Ye and Jia Zhangke. It will examine how their cinema differs from the previous generation in terms of themes and aesthetics. It will also contextualise their films in the local underground and independent cinema, in relation to censorship and film policy.
Screening: Still Life, dir. Jia Zhangke, 2016
Link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kIWx0e_VKQ&t=708s ;
Reading:
Cecília Mello, “Landscape painting, Chinese philosophy and the aesthetic innovation of Still Life" in The cinema of Jia Zhangke : realism and memory in Chinese film, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Zhang, Yingjin. “Rebel without a Cause? China’s New Urban Generation and Postsocialist Filmmaking.” In The Urban Generation Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, edited by Zhang Zhen, 49-80. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007.
Additional reading:
Berry, Michael. Jia Zhangke's 'Hometown Trilogy': Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures. Bloomsbury Academic, 2009.
