This course investigates images of the city in Chinese cinema from both
critical and historical perspectives.  It covers three geopolitical regions
in Chinese film production–mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan–from the
early 1920s up to the mid-1990s.  Weekly topics include cinema of
attractions, urban- rural antithesis, tragic visions, melodramatic
representation, politicization and masculinization, cynicism and parody,
visuality and modernity, identity crisis, violence and nostalgia, seduction
of homecoming, subterranean yearnings, gender revisions, postmodern
spectacle, and transnational positioning.

Requirements:
attendance & participation, 10%
4 journals (2 pages each), 20%
1 team project, 10%
2 quizzes, 20%
1 term paper (8-10 pages), 40%