August 29 further reading: National Cinema and China reading notes

Yellow Earth, dir. CHEN Kaige, 1984 (photo credit: Silent Volume)

Please take notes while reading for Tuesdays and Thursdays. Feel free to share them by Monday and Wednesday night on Google drive in "CHI 321 Group notes" to which you should all have been added. Extra credits for great notes. Some sample notes from readings for 8/29 below, and feel free to comment with your questions and reflections.

"Introduction: National Cinema and China"

p1 "Three Chinas"

p1-3 Problematize "national"

p4-5 Problematize "Chinese"

What does contemporary mean in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan respectively?

p5 "Chinese cinema" can be broader than "Chinese-language cinema" 

p5 National as historically constructed, circulated and contested

p7 Yellow Earth, City of Sadness, and Center Stage (An interview with Stanley Kwan, director of both Rouge and Center Stage, on Center Stage)

Yellow Earth, dir. CHEN Kaige (video credit: Youtube)

p7 Chinese film auteurs: CHEN Kaige, ZHANG Yimou, TIAN Zhuangzhuang, HOU Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, and Stanley Kwan

p7-9 Approaches to film: text-based, criticism-based,  production-based and consumption-based

p12 Not solely on great film, nor does it privilege the oppositional