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*Matt C - final paper: [[A Beautiful Life]] [[User:Matt C|Matt C]], (midterm paper was: [[Jet Li]])
 
*Matt C - final paper: [[A Beautiful Life]] [[User:Matt C|Matt C]], (midterm paper was: [[Jet Li]])
 
*Quaid A - midterm and final paper was: (student film project)
 
*Quaid A - midterm and final paper was: (student film project)
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* [[Ideology in Chinese Films]] -- Melanie W
 
* [[Ideology in Chinese Films]] -- Melanie W
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* [[Stars of Chinese Cinema]] -- Robert B.
* [[Fifth Generation Director: Zhang Yimou]] -- Melanie W
 

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Student produced China-related trailer and film Spring 2012 by Chris Chacon

Overview on Final Papers

Dear students, thank you very much for putting your articles here online. Here is a quick link to all the articles of all students in class. You may want to check if you have commented on all of them.

Introduction

This UVU Wiki webpage examines a selection of films from internationally acclaimed Chinese film directors. It is based on a UVU course, in which students act as the film directors and present them, their philosophy, style, work and view from their perspective and put them into the context of Chinese film history.


Recommended Readings:

  • Berry, Michael. Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese, Filmmakers. Columbia UP, 2005, ISBN 978-0231133319, A #417,632
  • Zhang Zhen (Editor), Jason McGrath (Contributor), Chris Berry (Contributor), Sheldon H. Lu (Contributor), Yinjing Zhang (Contributor), The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Paperback, 464 pp., Duke University Press Books, March 7, 2007, ISBN: 9780822340744, A#655,344
  • Chris Berry, Chinese Films in Focus II, Paperback, 304 pp., British Film Institute; 2nd Revised edition edition, December 23, 2008, ISBN: 9781844572373, A #526,197


Beginnings: The Early Years (prior to 1949)

Movies

The Early Years: Discussion Topics


Fifth Generation

Overview

Directors

Actors/Actresses

Movies


5th Generation: Discussion Topics

Martial Arts

Overview

Actors

Movies


  • Zhang Yimou: House of Flying Daggers; Jet Li -- Mat
  • Stephen Chow: Shaolin Soccer -- Hannah

Sixth Generation

Overview

Directors

Actors

Movies

6th Generation: Discussion Topics

General Discussion Topics