Chinese Culture and Film

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Description and recommended readings

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.

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

Oral reports 1- Mid-term papers

• Wong Kar Wai -- Keeley X.
• Stephen Chow -- Jon
• Street Angel -- Holly
• Gong Li -- RisR
• Ang Lee -- Jacob
• Contemporary Chinese and A Beautiful Life -- Jacob

Oral reports 2

• Jackie Chan -- RisR.
• Chinese Emotions -- Hollyspendlove
• Ip Man, Ip Man 2 -- Jacob
• Comedies (Screwball) -- Keeley X.
• Infernal_Affairs_and_The_Departed -- Jon

Readings in turn 1

• Zhang Yimou -- Keeley X.
• Chen Kaige -- RisR.
• Hong_Kong_Film_Awards -- Jon
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress -- Hollyspendlove

Readings in turn 2

• Success of Chinese Film Since 1984 -- Keeley X.
• Beijing Film Academy -- RisR.
• Enter_The_Dragon -- Jon
• Chinese Film Generations -- Hollyspendlove