World Cinema, Dudley Andrew: Staging of Globalization Provides Continuity For Us, and It Is Well Worth
World Cinema, Dudley Andrew: Staging of Globalization Provides Continuity For Us, and It Is Well Worth
World Cinema, Dudley Andrew: Staging of Globalization Provides Continuity For Us, and It Is Well Worth
Parallel with the growth of World Literature studies the past three decades
has been the growth of an academic industry of world cinema studies. World
Cinema crops up in the titles of dozens of books and countless articles. In
our two weeks together our aim will be to get a grip on the dimensions of this
area, first by interrogating the spatial terms it has encouraged: i.e. films and
movements are labeled national, international, transnational, regional, world,
global. And they are studied through methods that refer to maps, atlases,
zones, and networks. These terms readily yield to more historical approaches
that want to account for at local movements, transnational influences, general
flows and specific restraints. But what should really count pedagogically is to
assist powerful and productive encounters with films from anywhere. And so
our discussions will be fueled by films that exemplify or befuddle the terms
used to place them. We will focus on New Waves as movements that
spread differently in the 60s, the 80s and 90s, and in the new century if they
still spread at all. Asian cinemas will be our focus You will be asked to watch
a feature film in the evening before each session, or to have seen these films
quite recently. Secondary readings will include a few that let us consider the
extent to which issues in World Cinema are similar to or distinct from those in
World Literature. Among these are questions of the canon, of translation
(subtitles), and of institutions such as prizes, festivals, agents, and criticism.
James Tweedies new book, The Age of New Waves Art cinema and the
staging of Globalization provides continuity for us, and it is well worth
purchasing, though the key selections from the book will also be available in
pdf. .You can watch the films listed on the syllabus before July 7 on your own
or see them as a group in the evening prior to our discussion. The City
University local organizers have arranged for a mini-theatre (limited capacity:
15) where the screenings will take place in the evenings at 7.30pm, once the
IWL events for that day have ended.
David Bordwell, Made in Hong Kong from Planet Hong Kong (Harvard
U Press, 2000)
David Desser, Hong Kong Film and the New Cinephilia in Hong Kong
Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (Duke: 2006)
Adrian Martin, An Encounter with Hong Kong Style in Contemporary
Action Cinema InHong Kong Connections
Films: Chungking Express; Peking Opera Blues
Transnational Perspecitves
Asada, Akira, Infantile Capitalism and Japans Postmodernism, South
Atlantic Quarterly 87 (3).
Films : Ugetsu, Ringu
From James Tweedie, The Age of New Waves (Oxford Univ. Press,
2013).
Films: Dust in the Wind; The Crying Game [or City of Sadness]
adaptive practice.
Sheldon Lu, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Bouncing Angels:
Rey Chow, Not One Less, Fable of Migration in Chris Berry Chinese
Films in Focus (British Film Institute, 2003).
Sheldon Lu, Chinese Film Culture at the End of the 20 th c. Not One
Less in S. Lu Chinese-Language Film.
Films: Old Well; Not One Less