TuTh, 9:30 AM-10:45 AM, C2 203
Required film screening: W, 7:15 PM-10:15 PM, MY 130

Fulfills College A&H Requirement
Carries College Intensive Writing Credit

Instructor: Stephanie Deboer
E-Mail: sdeboer@indiana.edu
Office: C2 251
Phone: 856-3708

Course Description:
East Asian film and media is increasingly part of our everyday media
landscape, from Japanese animation, to J-horror films and Korean
dramas, Chinese blockbusters, Asian co-productions and gaming. How
do we begin to understand the ways in which Asian film and media has
traveled and been imagined to travel? This course explores regional
border crossing across a range of popular media – film, video,
television, animation and gaming.  Screenings will focus on popular
film and media of East Asia (primarily Japan, South Korea, Taiwan,
Hong Kong and Mainland China, with links to Thailand and Singapore)
as they are linked across the region and the globe.

We will examine the ways in which travel and exchange have both
occurred and been imagined across a recent history of East Asian
media from the mid twentieth century. Readings, writing and class
discussions will address these over a range of transnational
dynamics – imperial constructions of place, futures imagined around
new technologies, the possibilities of contact zones, the
limitations of links, disjuncture of genres and the ever-present
complexities of sexuality and gender.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:
•	Reflect on your own relationship to popular East Asian film
and media
•	Understand basic (trans)national terms and conditions
through which border crossing in East Asian film and media has been
configured
•	Critique the ways that gender and sexuality influence and
interact with these constructions
•	Gain critical tools for understanding a wide range of global
film and media

No specific knowledge of any particular East Asian film or media is
required!