MW 2:30 - 3:45 PM & M 7:15 -9:45 PM (SCREENING)
This course carries cultural studies credit and the college arts &
humanities distribution credit.

How did kung fu films become the most popular form of
entertainment in East Asia? How can one explain its
unlikely connections with romance, the sentimental film,
and the spaghetti Western? This course explores the
literary and cinematic conventions of knight-errant
(wuxia) films and fiction in China, tracing their trajectory
from classical sources to contemporary Hong Kong and
China. Through this genre one may gain a unique vista to
the ideological inner workings of manhood, friendship,
gender, nationalism, and enlightenment. (3 credits)

Films
• The Last Hurrah for Chivalry
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Drunken Master
• Shaolin Soccer
• The Bride with White Hair
• Ashes of Time
• Chungking Express
• 2046
• Hero
• The House of Flying Daggers
• Rashomon
• The Seven Samurai