Section outline

  • This week will focus on domestic diversity within China, and explore ethnic minority and dialect cinemas, through a case study on the newly raised Tibetan cinema, especially the films by Pema Tseden.

    Screening: Tharlo, dir. Pema Tseden, 2017



    Reading:

    Grewal, Anup. "Contested Tibetan landscapes in the films of Pema Tseden", Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 10:2,135-149, 2016. DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2016.1167336

    Berry, Chris. “Pema Tseden and the Tibetan road movie: space and identity beyond the ‘minority nationality film’, in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 10:2, 89-105, 2016.
    DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2016.1167334

    Victor Fan, “Cinema of Reindividuation and Cultural Extraterritoriality: “Chinese” Dialect Cinemas and Regional Politics” in The Multilingual Screen, New Reflections on Cinema and Linguistic Difference, Bloomsbury, 2016.