Pleas
read the Peter Chan interview from Speaking in Images before writing your response to the film. Use
specific evidence (with page numbers) from the interview to support your
specific film analysis.
Read Rey Chow’s “By Way of Mass Commodities: Love in Comrades, Almost a Love Story” from Sentimental Fabulations before coming to class on Thursday.
Screenings on Thursday at 5 pm
in CB336 (alternative location CB331) and Friday at 1 pm in CB 333: Millennium
Mambo (Qianxi manbo, 2001, dir. HOU Hsiao-hsien/Hou
Xiaoxian, 119 min.)
As usual, your film/reading response will
be due on Monday by 8 pm on our class blog. Your comments to two other responses will be
due on Monday by 10 pm. Your one "talking point" from each reading with your name and
date will be due at the beginning of each class.
