I reserve the option of making changes to our daily readings (additions, deletions or adaptations of the current set). 

A Note About Film Screenings:

Except where otherwise indicated films are to be seen BEFORE the seminar session dedicated to discussing the film. These films are widely available and are also in the library. If you have questions about how to access these films make sure to ask well before class.

Film Screenings:

• John Ford, The Searchers 1956

• Emilio Fernandez, Maria Candelaria 1944

Reading Assignments:

• Benedict Anderson Imagined Communities (xi-xv; 1-82) (Angel)

• Edward Said Culture and Imperialism (Intro; Empire, Geography, Culture; American Ascendancy) (Angel)

• Monaco How to Read a film; Chapter 4 (pp228-312); Film and Media Chronology (pp570-603)

• Valentina Vitali and Paul Willeman "Introduction" in Theorising National Cinema Vitali and Willeman, eds.

• Paul Willeman "The National Revisited" in Theorising National Cinema Vitali and Willeman, eds.

• Brian Henderson "The Searchers": An American Dilemma  Film Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Winter, 1980-1981), pp. 9-23 (On JStor)

• Film and Nationalism Selections (1-88)

• Andrea Noble Mexican National Cinema, pp1-25; 70-94 (Angel)

• "Maria Candelaria"  (Angel)

• Ana M. López "Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America" in Theorising National Cinema Vitali and Willeman, eds.

Film Screenings:

• Stan Lai's Peach Blossom Land

• Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine

Reading Assignments:

• Joshua Goldstein, "Mei Lanfang and the Nationalization of Peking Opera, 1912-1930," positions: east asia cultures critique 7.2 (1999): 377-420 (On Angel)

• Jon Kowallis "The Diaspora in Postmodern Taiwan and Hong Kong Film" (On Angel)

• Shu-mei Shih, Introduction. Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (UC Press, 2007) (Selections on Angel)

Websites to visit:

Video clips from the stage version of Peach Blossom Land (the play was made into a film later): http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/march7/videos/187_flash.html

Background info on Stan Lai:

http://complit.la.psu.edu/chinese/StanLai.shtml

Interview with Stan Lai:

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/10/22/qaStanLai

Film Screenings:

Ousmene Sembene Black Girl and Borom Sarret

Reading Assignments:

• Frantz Fanon. “National Culture” (1961; Trans. Constance Farrington, 1968.) In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. London, New York: Routledge, 2006. 119–22.

• Roy Armes Third World Film Making and the West Section Three (189-225), Chapter on Sembene (281-292) (Angel)

• Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake Global/Local selections by Miyoshi (78-107)  and by Stam and Shohat (145-172)

• N. Frank Ukadike "Video Booms and the manifestations of 'first' cinema in Anglophone Africa"  (Angel)

• Anthony R. Guneratne "Rethinking Third Cinema" (Angel)

• Stephen Crofts "Reconceptualizing National Cinemas" in Theorising National Cinema Vitali and Willeman, eds.

Film Screening: Dziga Vertov, "Man with a Movie Camera" and "Three Songs of Lenin"

Reading Assignments: (all on Angel)

• Dziga Vertov "Kinopravda and Radiopravda"

• John Mackay "Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov's 'Three Songs of Lenin' as a Stalinist film"

• "Films and the Community" by John Grierson

• "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism" by Yuri Slezkine

• Bedrich Vaclavek "On the Sociology of Film"

Film Screening:

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Memorias del subdesarrollo 1968

Reading Assignments:

• Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, "The Viewers Dialectic" in Michael Martin , ed. The New Latin American Cinema vol 1 (Angel)

• Baugh, Scott L "Manifesting La Historia: Systems of 'Development' and the New Latin American Cinema Manifesto" (Muse)

• Grosfoguel, Ramón "Developmentalism, Modernity, and Dependency Theory in Latin America" (Muse)

• Julio García Espinosa "For an Imperfect Cinema" in Michael Martin , ed. The New Latin American Cinema vol 1 (Angel)

• Julianne Burton, "Film and Revolution in Cuba: The First 25 Years" in Michael Martin , ed. The New Latin American Cinema vol 2 (Angel)

Mid-term papers due

Film Screenings:

Godfrey Reggio: Powaqqatsi, (1988)* and Koyaanisqatsi (1982) (starred film required; others optional)
 

Reading Assignments:

• Arjun Appadurai. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Culture Economy.” in (Angel).

• Roland Robertson, "Glocalization:  Time-Space and Homogeniety-Heterogeneity" (Angel)

• Néstor García Canclini. “Identities as a Multimedia Spectacle.” In Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts. Trans. George Yúdice. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001. 89–96.

• Selections from Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film (1-37)

• Paul Hopper Understanding Cultural Globalization; Intro, and Chap 1, 2,3, and 4 (pp 1-110)

Film Screening:

Titanic

Reading Assignments:

• Charles Acland, Screen Traffic  part 1 (3-81)

• Toby Miller, et. al. Global Hollywood 2, Intro and Chapter 1 (1-110)

Film Screenings:

Blade Runner, The Matrix* (starred film required; others optional)

Reading Assignments:

• Anthony King, ed. Culture, Globalization and the World System selections

• Manuel Castells, "Prologue" from The Network Society (pp 1-28) (Angel)

• Manuel Castells selections from The Power of Identity (pp 1-70) (Angel)

• Douglas Kellner "Mapping the Present from the Future: From Baudrillard to Cyberpunk" in Media Culture (Angel)

• Jean Baudrillard.  “Simulacra and Simulations”

Film Screenings:  

The Wedding Banquet, Ice Storm, Brokeback Mountain, and Lust, Caution*  (starred film required; others optional)

Reading Assignments:

• Paul Hopper Understanding Cultural Globalization; Chaps 5, 6, 7 and Conclusion (pp 111-190)

• Christopher L. Connery "The Oceanic Feeling and the Regional Imaginary"  in Wilson ed Global/Local

• Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto "National/International/Transnational: The Concept of Trans-Asian Cinema and the Cultural Politics of Film Criticism" in Theorising National Cinema Vitali and Willeman, eds.

• Ien Ang,  Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm  boundary 2, Vol. 25, No. 3, Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (Autumn, 1998), pp. 223-242 (ON JSTOR)

Film Screenings:

Y tu mama también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men*

Reading Assignments:

Film Screenings:

Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel* (starred film required; others optional)

• Néstor García Canclini. “The North-South Dialogue on Cultural Studies.” (1995.) In Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts. Trans. George Yúdice. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001. 3–13.

• Néstor García Canclini. “Latin America and Europe as Suburbs of Hollywood.” (1995.) In Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts. Trans. George Yúdice. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001. 97–107.

• Toby Miller, et. al. Global Hollywood 2; Chapter 2 and Chapter 4; (pp 111-172; 213-258)

• Menne, Jeff. "A Mexican Nouvelle Vague: The Logic of New Waves under Globalization," Cinema Journal, 47, Number 1, Fall 2007, pp. 70-92 (On Muse)