1000 word commentary on weeks 4 6 course materials
Week 4: Nationalist Party Relocated to Taiwan: Re-Sinification Projects
Film Screening: Beautiful Duckling 養鴨人家 (dir. Li Xin, 1965)
Tuesday, January 28: Healthy Realism and Confucian Moral Order in Free China
Reading: Yeh and Davis 25-53
Screening: Love Story Films. Cloud of Romance, Cheerful Wind, You are the Apple of My Eye (2011, dir. Ko Ching-teng, aka ä¹æŠŠåˆ€ etc.)
Group Presentation (Students Form Short Film Teams)
Thursday, January 30: Kungfu Film, Court Drama, and Post-loyalist Discourse: Soft Power in the Cold War Era
Screening: Dragon Gate Inn; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
In-class Writeup#4
Reading: Rigger 59-84
Week 5: Confucian Confusions: ROC Ousted from the UN
Film Screening: Terrorizers æ怖份å (dir. Edward Yang, 1986)
Tuesday, February 4: Edward Yang’s Strangers in the City
Screening in class: A Bright Summer Day (1991); Yi Yi (2000)
Group Presentation
Reading: Yeh and Davis 91-131
Thursday, February 6: Hou Hsiao-hsien and the Disappearance of God (Father): The Making of Taiwan’s New Wave
Screening in Class: Sandwich Man (1982); Boys from Fengkuei (1983); Café Lumiere (2003)
In-class Writeup#5
Reading: Rigger 85-132
Week 6: Overseas Reactions to ROC’s Status of being Universally Abandoned
Film Screening: What Time is It There ä½ é‚£é‚Šå¹¾é»žï¼Ÿ(dir. Tsai Ming-iang, 1999)
Tuesday, February 11: Father as Ghost and Gay: National Spirit and Hauntology
Screening in class: The River (1997); Blue Gate Crossing (2002); Love at Last?
Reading: Yeh and Davis 217-248
Thursday, February 13: Ang Lee’s Father Knows Best Trilogy: Migrant Subjects and Identity Crises
Screening in class: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994); Pushing Hands (1991); The Wedding Banquet (1993); Hulk (2003); The Ice Strom (1997)
Reading: Economist essays on Ai and his Art Exhibit Pamphlets
In-class Writeup#
Reading: Yeh and Davis 177-216
Sunday, February 16: Commentary Due:
1000-word Commentary on Weeks 4-6 course materials uploaded to TED
Actually，the commentary is compare 3 film that choosen by teacher in each week, they are Beautiful Duckling 養鴨人家 (dir. Li Xin, 1965), Terrorizers æ怖份å (dir. Edward Yang, 1986) and Film Screening: What Time is It There ä½ é‚£é‚Šå¹¾é»žï¼Ÿ(dir. Tsai Ming-iang, 1999). And the Grading requirement is in the below files and also the thesis.
