This course invites students to examine Chinese-language film cultures from the silent era to the digital age. Traveling across mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong through the screen, students will learn essential tools for analyzing film images and sound. Students will also discuss how cinema took roots in China, how the radicals took advantage of the attraction of the film screen to instigate political movements, how digital cinema has established a database mode of filmmaking in Chinese animation industry, and, most recently, how the digital screen has introduced a set of new techniques in crafting and exploiting the self-image in the digital economy.
Students will have the opportunity to engage with media production, such as making music videos and video essays, as a new mode of critical thinking and practice. Students are encouraged to use both old and new media technologies and experiment with unorthodox ways of looking at the world through their own lenses.
Students will have the opportunity to engage with media production, such as making music videos and video essays, as a new mode of critical thinking and practice. Students are encouraged to use both old and new media technologies and experiment with unorthodox ways of looking at the world through their own lenses.
- Teacher: Yuan Gao
