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Films

ART 350, CHINESE CINEMA
Screening Schedule, Fall Term 2011

Films are shown in DVD or videotape format on Monday evenings at 7:30 in 106 McCormick Hall.  All films have English-language subtitles. Please direct inquiries to the course professor.

Yellow Eart
September 19
Intense Visuality: Film as a Fine Art
Yellow Earth
(China, director Chen Kaige, 1984)
Lust Caution
September 26
History in Film and the History of Film
Lust, Caution
(USA-China-Taiwan, director Ang Lee, 2007)
Yiyi
October 3
The Chinese Family Model
Yi Yi
(Taiwan, director Edward Yang, 2000)
Judou
October 10
Gender and Sexuality
Judou
(China, director Zhang Yimou, 1993)
Horse Thief
October 17
Youth, Ethnicity, Education
Horse Thief
(China, director Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1985)
Suzhou River
October 24
Modernization and Post-Socialism: Hopes and Fears
Suzhou River
(China, director Lou Ye, 2000)
Farewell
November 7
Cinema, Artistic Status, and the Sister Arts: Painting and Literature, Photography, Music and Theater
Farewell My Concubine
(China, director Chen Kaige, 1993)
In the Heat of the Sun
November 14
The Politics of Narrative Form: Melodrama and Embodiment−Truth, Deception, Censorship
In the Heat of the Sun
(China, director Jiang Wen, 1994)
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November 21
Documentary and Independent Film
Last Train Home
(China, director Fan Lixin, 2009)
Devils on the Doorstep
November 28
Violence and Justice
Devils on the Doorstep
(China, director Jiang Wen, 2000)
The World
December 5
Chinese Eco-Cinema
The World
(China, director Jia Zhangke, 2004)
Goog Men
December 12
Defining "China" in a Global Culture: Taiwan's On-Going Colonial Crisis; Repression, Rebellion, and Escapism in Hong Kong; Relocating China in America
Good Men, Good Women
(Taiwan, director Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1995)