Meets with F600.  The course introduces Chinese film, music and the
film industry and techniques for analyzing films.  The course focuses
on films that feature music and musicians as their central topic or
component produced in China from the 1930s to the present as well as
Hollywood films about China.  Two primary course objectives are 1) to
learn methods for "reading" film music; and 2) to learn to read
Chinese films and listen to their soundtracks in relation to their
representations of Chinese culture. The films and music will be
contextualized within the social-historical conditions of their
production as well the conditions which the films portray.  We will
move between portrayals of Chinese life within the films to discourse
about the films and to other types of representations of Chinese
culture and music.
	
Course materials include a book on analyzing music and film, articles
on Chinese film and music (available through Electronic Reserves and
a short Reader), and multimedia materials, coordinated through a
website and CD-Rom.  Several films will be viewed outside the class
as "homework assignments."  Assignments (subject to change) will
include: a midterm exam (short answer and essay), several short
synthetic and analytic papers, precis of selected readings, and a
final research paper of approximately 10 double-spaced pages for
undergraduates and 20 double-space pages for graduate students
(formats other than a research paper also are possible).
	
The course is cross-listed at the undergraduate and graduate levels
in the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture; it fulfills
one of the "world area course requirements" for Ph.D. minors in the
Ethnomusicology Program and COAS AHTI and Culture Option A
requirements.