CTV4083

Course Descriptions

This course is designed to investigate histories, aesthetics, genres, directors and modes of production of Hong Kong and Taiwan cinema. Students need to have a basic understanding of cinema as an artistic medium as well as a cultural product subject to market economy and cultural policy of nation-states. Lectures focus on the idea of cinema as a never-ending process of struggles among filmmakers, film languages, the film industry, official cultural agendas, the audiences, and film culture. Each class meeting consists of screening, lectures, and discussion.

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